Snowleopard wrote:

Crumbs. Now you are taking me back in time. T'was soon in the year that my
mother started making Parkin for the Guy Fawkes fe(a)stivities. I loved the
stuff.

We used to have a local community bonfire to which all families brought
something in the way of food, parkin being one of them. Potatoes baked in
the fire or an adjacent minor furnace, chestnuts and bangers of the
comestible variety.

Having a wholesale and retail greengrocery as part of the business, we
provided chestnuts and potatoes as well as the "manufactured" timber for the
fire.