Bath Soft Molasses Gingerbread

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of molasses
• three of flour
• one of buttermilk or sour milk
• two-thirds of a cupful of butter
• one egg
• one table-spoonful of soda
• one teaspoonful of ginger
• three if a strong flavor be desired

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and molasses in a tin pan, and place one pan on the fire.

2. 2

   When the molasses boils up, add the ginger and soda.

3. 3

   Take from the fire, and add the milk and beaten egg; then sift the flour into the pan.

4. 4

   Beat well, and pour into three well-buttered pans.

5. 5

   Bake in a rather quick oven for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 405. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bath Soft Molasses Gingerbread. For three sheets of this delicious gingerbread use two cupfuls of molasses, three of flour (measured before sifting), one of buttermilk or sour milk, two-thirds of a cupful of butter, one egg, one table-spoonful of soda, one teaspoonf ul of ginger, or three if a strong flavor be Desired

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