Buffalo Soft Molasses Gingerbread

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of molasses
• one of sugar
• one of sour milk
• four of flour
• two eggs
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two teaspoonfuls of ginger
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• two table-spoonfuls of water

Method

1. 1

   Beat the sugar and molasses together.

2. 2

   Add the ginger, salt, cinnamon, and sour milk.

3. 3

   Dissolve the soda in the water, and add it to the mixture.

4. 4

   Now add the eggs, well beaten, and lastly the flour.

5. 5

   Bake in shallow pans, in a moderately quick oven, for twenty minutes.

6. 6

   This quantity will fill four small cake-pans.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 406. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buffalo Soft Molasses Gingerbread. Use two cupfuls of molasses, one of sugar, one of sour milk, four of flour, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of ginger, a level teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two table-spoonfuls of water

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