Often we all feel like sitting in the garden and cooking delicious food for our partners in the bonfire. Not many of us got to avail that opportunity before the birth of fire pits I am sure, but now that bonfires are often replaced by permanent and far more convenient fire pits, cooking on fire pits can certainly be an experience to recall for the whole family and definitely worth a try on a holiday! Fire pit cooking is sure to become more and more popular as people realize how much fun and delightful an experience it can be…

Some fire pits are equipped to cook whereas others are possibly not. While designing or buying a fire pit, this off course has to be kept in mind. If spending just a few dollars more gives you the opportunity to cook on your fire pit then it surely is worth it. Isn’t it? Fire pit cooking is an experience in itself. You got to try to believe it! Though it might not be as adventurous and natural as bonfire cooking or the barbeque, but it is far more newer and advanced that too with adequate safety measures while retaining a good amount of thrill. So on your next holiday, cook on the fire pit for your wife!

Christmas recipe makes: 16 slices

calories per serving: 210

preparation time: 20 minutes

cooking time: 60 minutes

suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

* oil

* dates, stoned 125 g (4 oz)

* stem ginger, in syrup 50 g (2 oz)

* bicarbonate of soda, 2.5 ml (half tsp)

* milk, 50 ml (2 fl oz)

* butter, 125 g (4 oz)

* sugar, soft brown 125 g (4 oz)

* eggs, 2

* syrup, golden 150 g (5 oz)

* treacle, black 150 g (5 oz)

* flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)

* ginger, ground 7.5 ml (1.5 tsp)

* salt

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Take a square 9 inch cake tin, grease and line with non-stick
baking paper. Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and chop
the stem ginger and dates into rough pieces.

2. Blend together the sugar and butter, then add the beaten
eggs. Stir in the stem ginger, dates, milk, treacle and syrup.

3. Blend in a pinch of salt the ground ginger and the sifted
flour. Place into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 2 (150
degrees centigrade, 300 F) for about 60 minutes. Another test is
to put a skewer into the mixture and it should come out clean.
After baking leave the cake in the tin for 1 hour, then remove
fron the tin and place on a wire rack.

4. Wrap in greaseproof paper when cool.