Pain D’épices - Spiced French Gingerbread Loaf With Honey

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 100 g honey
• 140 g wholemeal flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 100 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 40 g butter
• 65 g soft brown sugar
• 40 g crystallized ginger, chopped in to small pieces
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon quatre-epices (4-spice powder, usually made of pepper, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon)

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 180c/360°f.
• 2 warm the milk and then add the honey, sugar and butter stirring well.
• 3 put the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and quatre -épices in a mixing bowl, make a well in the middle, break the egg into it, and add the milk mixture. mix well (or just throw the whole lot into a food processor). add the crystallised ginger and mix well once again.
• 4 pour into a well buttered 23-cm loaf tin and bake for 25 minutes. lower the heat to 150c/300f and cook for a further 15 minutes. remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
• 5 store wrapped in clingfilm to keep it moist.