Crisp Gingerbread

Ingredients

• Three pounds of flour
• one of sugar
• one of butter
• three tablespoonsful of ginger
• one of powdered cloves
• a teaspoonful of powdered mace
• and the grated rind of a fresh orange

Method

1. 1

   Cut the butter into the flour, and rub it through with your hands until thoroughly mixed, then add the spices and orange-peel, mix well together and wet it with molasses, roll it very thin, and bake quickly in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 122. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crisp Gingerbread. Three pounds of flour, one of sugar, one of butter, three table- spoonsful of ginger, one of powdered cloves, a teaspoonful of powdered mace, and the grated rind of a fresh orange

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