Pain D’Épices - Spiced French Gingerbread Loaf With Honey

• 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)

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/360u0b0F.
2. Warm the milk and then add the honey, sugar and butter stirring well.
3. Put the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and quatre -epices 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.

honey, wholemeal flour, baking powder, milk, egg, butter, brown sugar, ginger, ground ginger, pepper

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/pain-d-pices-spiced-french-gingerbread-loaf-with-honey-412076 (may not work)