'Nanna’s Perfect Parkin' by Donna M Day

Note: All other parkin recipes are wrong inferior

Ingredients:

- Five generations of coal miners, preferably embittered from battling Thatcherites

- Oats

- A dairy maid from way back with strong hands and crooked thumbs

- Treacle

- Two generations of clothes makers, combining tailors and seamstresses

- Butter

- The heather-scented air of the Moors

- An egg

- The smoke from factories caught in the ginnels between back-to-back houses

- Milk

- The secret of Yorkshire pudding batter whispered over hot fat

- Brown sugar

- Hills. So, so many hills

- Flour

- Cricket on a Saturday afternoon, preferably rained off

- Golden syrup

- A novel written by each of the Brontës including at least one beat-up paperback with notes in the margin, in pencil

- Plenty of fresh ginger, grated