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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 12:04 PM
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Is anybody else here baking Parkin today?
It's sort of a gingerbread cake with rolled oats in it. I've read that it's traditional for Guy Fawkes Day.
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 02:11 PM
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1. If I could eat it I'd be making it
Alas....I'm saving my calories for Thanksgiving. I love anything rich and sticky and Parkin is lovely with a nice cup of tea and scotch. Like fruit cake It's better after it's aged IMO
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 05:14 AM
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2. First I've heard of it
What I mainly bake is chocolate chip cookies. We aren't really dessert people except for that.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 01:48 PM
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3. I've never heard of it before, either.
The recipes I'm seeing say to use pinhead oats/steel cut oats. Do they soften appreciably in the mix?
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-06-09 05:05 PM
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4. I use "rolled" oats.
They do soften, but retain some texture.

Do the recipes you see say to soak the oats first?
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