The 'cake' is superfluous, of course, as the reason we know it as gingerBREAD is because it was originally baked as a loaf. Gingerbread men came later.
I'm sure the McVities loaf, in its immediately recognizable racing green livery, bears no real resemblance to proper gingerbread, but it accompanies a tea-time cuppa very nicely indeed. There is something comforting about its squodgy toothsomeness, and it combines heady sweetness and a touch of heat; so much more interesting than a biscuit, less all-out sweet than cake.
I suppose you could, technically, put butter on it, like we do with malt loaf. And if you were desperate you could dish it up with vanilla ice-cream for a quick pudding.
Herself eschews gingerbread loaf with a firm hand, reserving one of her special withering looks for it whenever I bring it home. I'm not sure why. Maybe she had a bad gingerbread experience at some point. But her disdain leaves all the more for me. The dog would like some, but she's out of luck.
Cut the fattest slice that you dare and settle down with a cup of tea and preferably a cold winter's afternoon outside. Lovely.
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i'm surprised TG let's you have it in the house! we were never allowed to have those cakes as children. they are super squishy though aren't they? definitely two-slice cakes. speaking of which time to finish off that pat van macaroon. love a dry cake me.
ReplyDeleteThe Artist here:- one of Herself's sisters. The other, middle, sister likes Soreen. Go figure. Herself's father eats any and all cake but his fave is homemade fruitcake. Herself's Mother makes cakes without butter, sugar, icing, flour and says they're "gudferu". We don't believe her. I can eat a whole tub of Emm'n'Ess Extremely Chocolatey Minibites which the writer of this blog introduced me to some years ago with no thought for my future health or waistline.
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