Like many areas of the UK, Lancashire is known for offering certain foods with some dating back years and years. While you’ll probably know of the most famous foods, you might be unaware of ...

Preheat the oven to 140C/275F/Gas 1 and butter a 30cm/12in x 20cm/8in cake tin. For the parkin, put the soft brown sugar, butter, syrup and treacle into a small saucepan and melt over a gentle heat.

Lottie Shaw’s can put much of its success, in recent years at least, down to one product: parkin. The gingerbread cake, which ...

With regard to parkin in AR–JP, the presence of carboxy-terminal two RING-finger motifs 20, which are suggested to interact with E2 (refs 21–27), prompted us to investigate its function as E3.