Soft Gingerbread
Public Domain Recipes

Soft Gingerbread

Ingredients

  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 2 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1/3 cup butter, and lard
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 1 T tsp salt
  • 2 cup flour

Directions

  1. Cream the butter and lard, add the sugar, molasses and warm water; mix well.
  2. Mix and sift the soda, ginger, cinnamon, salt and flour and add to the first mixture.
  3. Beat one minute and pour into a well-buttered pan.
  4. Bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes.
  5. Serve hot or cold.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: molass, soda, sugar, ginger, butter, cinnamon, water, salt, flour

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, oven, egg beater, sifter

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