Oatmeal Parkin

photo of a brown round cake on a yellow plate with a cookbook in the background

Not long ago, I inherited a couple of my late mother-in-law’s cookbooks. I’m particularly taken with Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course from 1982. Black and white line drawings outweigh colour photographs ten to one. May I present Oatmeal Parkin, translated to my current time and place.