Support thread for parents of teenagers
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Oct 2020
10:38pm, 31 Oct 2020
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halfpint
Ok what is parkin? I remember that feeling well when I went to Uni and discovered that half the words in my vocabulary were not Scottish but Doric (or sometimes just weird words made up by my dad).
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Oct 2020
10:47pm, 31 Oct 2020
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WA
Parkin is the best cake ever Linds- hope you get her home and can keep her home. This is ridiculously tough on our teens. Marigold has her 15th birthday next week and had planned a walk with 4 friends. A walk. For a 15th birthday. And she won't be able to do that now. |
Oct 2020
10:48pm, 31 Oct 2020
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pedroscalls
It's a ginger cake HP, very nice I have to say.
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Oct 2020
10:51pm, 31 Oct 2020
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WA
Less ginger, more treacle n oats. My gran, and then my mum, and then me, - no ginger My mil uses ginger. Hers is a good cake, but it's not parkin! |
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Oct 2020
10:54pm, 31 Oct 2020
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pedroscalls
Didn't know that WA,
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Oct 2020
11:01pm, 31 Oct 2020
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Meglet
The recipe I used had ginger. And mixed spice. But I feel it needed more black treacle as it’s not very dark. It’s a ginger/treacle cake with oatmeal, so it’s a rich soft chewy cake! Traditionally eaten around bonfire night. I don’t think I’d had bonfire toffee before I came to Yorkshire either. |
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Oct 2020
11:02pm, 31 Oct 2020
21,309 posts
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Meglet
In the supermarket there was no oatmeal, no mixed spice, and limited treacle, raisins, mixed peel. I think everyone in Yorkshire is making parkin or Christmas cake this weekend!
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Oct 2020
11:09pm, 31 Oct 2020
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halfpint
Sounds lovely. Do I have to go to Yorkshire to get some?
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Oct 2020
11:29pm, 31 Oct 2020
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Meglet
Sorry WA missed your post. Poor Marigold, that sucks. It’s so rubbish for our youngsters. |
Oct 2020
11:38pm, 31 Oct 2020
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swittle
hp - parkin is sold at the major supermarkets but a few show it out of stock. If you want to push the boat out, Betty's of Harrogate supply online at an eyewatering price, compared with most supermarkets. At Betty's, one gets what one pays for!  bettys.co.uk |
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