Delicate Molasses Gingerbread

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of flour
• one cupful of molasses
• half a cupful of sour milk or cream
• one teaspoonful of soda
• one of ginger
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one generous table-spoonful of butter
• one of water

Method

1. 1

   Put the molasses, milk, salt, and ginger in a bowl.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda in cold water, and add it, with the melted butter, to the mixture in the bowl.

3. 3

   Now add the flour, and beat quickly.

4. 4

   Pour the mixture into three deep tin plates that have been well buttered, and bake in a quick oven for from eighteen to twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

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.

Delicate Molasses Gingerbread. Use two cupfuls of flour, measured after sifting, one cupful of molasses, half a cupful of sour milk or cream, one teaspoonful of soda, one of ginger, half a teaspoon- ful of salt, one generous table-spoonful of butter, and one of water. Put the molasses, milk, salt, and ginger in a bowl. Dissolve the soda in the cold water, and add it, with the butter, melted, to the mixture in the bowl. Now add the flour, and beat quickly. Pour the mixture into three deep tin plates that have been well buttered, and bake 768 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. in a quick oven for from eighteen to twenty minutes. Serve while fresh ; it will be especially nice then. * Soft Molasses Gingerbread. A cupful of molasses, a cupful of sour cream, two cup- fuls of flour, an egg, a large teaspoonf ul of ginger, two level teaspoonf uls of soda, and half a teaspoonf ul of sal

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