Ginger Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls soda
• 1/2 cup sour milk
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls ginger
• 1/4 teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and molasses in a saucepan and cook until the boiling point is reached.

2. 2

   Remove from the fire, add the soda and beat vigorously, then add the milk, eggs well beaten, and the remaining ingredients mixed and sifted.

3. 3

   Bake fifteen minutes in buttered pans two thirds filled with the mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The blue ribbon cook book (1904) by Jennie C. Benedict, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup of butter. 3 cups of flour. 2 cups of sugar. 4 eggs. Cream the butter and sugar together, beat eggs sepa- rately, add the yelks and then the whites. Dissolve two 88 THE BLUE HIBBON COOK BOOK. teaspoons of baking powder in one half cup of milk, add to the batter, and lastly the flour. Bake in muffin rings. BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE. } cup of butter. 3 eggs. 1 cup of sugar. 1 cup of jam. 2 cups of flour. 3 tablespoons of cream. 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 teaspoon cloves. 1 teaspoon allspice. Cream the butter and sugar, add the jam, then the eggs beaten separately, add the spices and then the bak- ing powder dissolved in the cream, and lastly the flour. Bake in layers. Put white icing between and all over it. SOUR MILK QINQER BREAD. 1 cup molasses. 1 cup sour milk. 2J cups flour. If teaspoonfuls soda. 2 teaspoonfuls ginger. J teaspoonful salt. 1 cup melted butter. Add the milk to the molasses, mix and sift the dry ingredients, combine the two, add butter and beat vigor- ously. Pour into a buttered, shallow pan and bake twenty- five minutes in a moderate oven. QINQER SNAPS. 2 cups of molasses. 1 heaping teaspoon ginger. 1 cup of lard. J teaspoon pepper. 1 tablespoon of soda. Cream the molasses and lard together; add ginger and pepper, then dissolve the soda in as little hot water as pos- sible and add flour enough to roll. Roll thin, cut out and bake in buttered pans with a little flour sprinkled over them. CAKES. 89 GINGER BREAD. 1 cup molasses. J cup of butter. 1J teaspoonfuls soda. J cup sour milk. 1 egg. 2 cups flour. 2 teaspoonfuls ginger. J teaspoonful of salt

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