12 Vegan Parkin Recipes

  Vegan Parkin: 1

  Ingredients:
8 oz S.R. flour
8 oz oatmeal
2 teaspoonsful ginger
4 oz soya margarine
4 tablespoonsful sugar
8 oz treacle
1/2 pint soya milk.

  Method:
Rub margarine into flour and oatmeal.
Add sugar and ginger, mix thoroughly.
Warm treacle and mix to paste, adding milk if necessary.
Put into greased Yorshire pudding tin.

  Baking time:
One hour in a moderately slow oven.

  Vegan Parkin: 2

  Ingredients:
1 lb treacle
1 1/4 lb flour
5 oz soya margarine
6 oz moist sugar
1/2 pint soya milk
2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger.

  Method:
Rub the margarine into the flour.
Add the sugar and slowly mix in the slightly heated treacle.
Add the ginger and milk.
Pour into a shallow tin.

  Baking time:
Bake in a fairly slow oven for 1 1/2 hours.

  Vegan Parkin: 3

  Ingredients:
8 oz S.R. flour
8 oz medium oatmeal
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 - 1 teaspoon ground ginger
4 oz soft brown sugar
4 oz soya margarine
8 oz syrup or black treacle
under 1/4 pint soya milk.

  Method:
Line a 10"x12" baking tin with greased greaseproof paper.
Sift the dry ingredients into a basin.
Melt together sugar, margarine and syrup or treacle over a low heat.
Remove and add the milk.
Stir into the dry ingredients.
Turn into the lined tin.
When baked, turn on to a wire cake rack.
When cold, wrap in greaseproof paper and store in an airtight tin.

  Baking time:
1 - 1 1/4 hours in a moderately slow oven (Gas Mark 2 or 325 degrees F).

  Vegan Parkin: 4

  Ingredients:
8 oz flour
8 oz oatmeal
8 oz treacle
4 oz soya margarine
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ginger
1 level teaspoon bicarb of soda
1 cup of cold water.

  Method:
Line a 10" square tin with greased greaseproof paper.
Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl.
Melt together, over a low heat, treacle and margarine.
Stir into the dry ingredients, adding the cold water.
Turn into the prepared tin.

  Baking time:
1 - 1 1/2 hours in a moderately slow oven until firm.

  Vegan Parkin: 5

  Ingredients:
6 oz medium oatmeal
6 oz plain flour
3 oz sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 flat teaspoon bicarb of soda
pinch of salt
3 oz soya margarine
8 oz syrup or treacle
1/2 pint soya milk.

  Method:
In a pan melt, without boiling, margarine, treacle and milk.
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Add them to the pan and fold in.
Line and grease a tin.
Put the mixture in the tin.

  Baking time:
Approx 1 hour at 375 degrees F or Gas Mark 4.

  Vegan Parkin: 6

  Ingredients:
8 oz flour
8 oz medium oatmeal
4 oz soft brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ginger
10 oz treacle
3 oz soya margarine
1/4 pint soya milk
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda.

  Method:
Mix together flour, oatmeal and ginger.
Melt sugar, margarine and treacle and add a little of the milk.
Put this mixture into the flour mix and mix to a stiff batter.
Add bicarb of soda dissolved in the rest of the milk.
Mix quickly and pour into a shallow 11" x 9" x 2" tin.

  Baking time:
About one hour or until firm at 325 degrees F or Regulo Mark 2.

  Vegan Parkin: 7

  Ingredients:
8 oz oatmeal
8 oz flour
1 lb treacle
8 oz soya margarine
1/2 oz ground ginger
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 pint soya milk
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda.

  Method:
Place oatmeal and flour in mixing bowl and rub into it the margarine.
Add ginger and sugar.
Warm treacle until it is runny and mix in.
Warm the milk, dissolve the bicarb of soda in it, and add to the mixture.
Mix the whole to a smooth dough.
Grease a large, flat tin and line with greaseproof paper.
Pour in the dough and spread to an even depth.
When baked and cooled, cut into squares to serve.

  Baking time:
45 minutes, or until dark brown, at 375 degrees F or Gas Mark 5.

  Vegan Parkin: 8

  Ingredients:
1 lb oatmeal
8 oz flour
1 lb treacle
6 oz vegetable fat
4 oz Demerara sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teacup soya milk.

  Method:
Grease and line a good sized square tin.
Mix together dry ingredients.
Melt treacle, fat and sugar gently, then add to dry ingredients, with the milk.
Pour into tin.

  Baking time:
About one hour in a moderate oven until firm.

  Vegan Parkin: 9

  Ingredients:
8 oz oatmeal
8 oz flour
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
4 oz soya margarine
8 oz treacle
1 tablespoon soya milk.

  Method:
Heat treacle and margarine together gently until margarine has melted.
Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Pour liquids into well in centre of dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
Pour into greased and lined large shallow tin.

  Baking time:
One to one and a half hours in a slow oven until firm.

  Vegan Parkin: 10

  Ingredients:
8 oz plain wholemeal flour
2 oz fine oatmeal
2 oz wholemeal breadcrumbs
6 oz molasses
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon mixed spice
1/2 pint soya milk
2 oz vegetable fat
some roughly chopped almonds or hazelnuts

  Method:
Grease a small loaf tin and put a layer of roughly chopped nuts in the bottom.
Warm the molasses in a pan.
Place all dry ingredients into a bowl, add the soya milk and molasses and mix well.
Melt the fat until clear, add to the bowl and mix thoroughly.
Pour into the prepared tin.

  Baking time:
One hour at 350 degrees F or Gas mark 4.

  Vegan Parkin: 11

  Ingredients:
8 oz plain flour
2 level teaspoons baking powder
2 level teaspoons ground ginger
4 oz soya margarine
8 oz medium oatmeal
4 oz caster sugar
6 oz golden syrup
6 oz treacle
4 tablespoons soya milk

  Method:
Grease and line a 10 x 8 x 1 1/2 inch tin.
Sift flour, baking powder and ginger.
Rub in fat.
Add oatmeal and sugar.
Heat syrup and treacle.
Make well in centre of dry mix and stir in syrup, treacle and milk.
Mix till smooth, then pour into tin.
When baked, cool on rack.
Keep for at least a week before eating.

  Baking time:
45 - 60 minutes in centre of oven at Gas Mark 4 or 350 degrees F, until springs back when lightly pressed.

  Vegan Parkin: 12

  Ingredients:
4 oz plain wholemeal flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground ginger
4 oz medium oatmeal
3 tablespoons real barbados sugar
4 oz black treacle
4 oz golden syrup
4 oz vegan margarine
6 fl oz soya milk

  Method:
Line an 8 inch square tin with greased greaseproof paper.
Sift flour, baking powder and ginger into a bowl.
Add the residue of bran in the sieve and the oatmeal.
Put sugar, treacle, syrup and margarine into a pan and heat gently until melted.
Cool, then add the soya milk.
Add the treacle mixture to the dry ingredients and stir well.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin.
When baked, lift the parkin out of the tin and cool on a wire tray.
This parkin gets stickier if wrapped in foil and stored in a tin for a few days.

  Baking time:
50 - 60 minutes at 350 degrees F or Gas mark 4, until firm to the touch.