Ginger-Bread

Ingredients

• three eggs
• two pints of molasses
• one-half pint of butter
• one table-spoonful of soda
• flour enough for a stiff batter
• one table-spoonful of cloves
• one table-spoonful of cinnamon
• one nutmeg
• two table-spoonfuls of ground ginger

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients together and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one nutmeg, one tea- spoonful of ginger, one tea-spoonful of essence of lemon, six eggs, six cupfuls of flour. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; eggs beaten separately. Add molasses, flour, and spices, and beat well together for a few minutes. Bake in a large cake-mold in a moderate oven. Mrs. Bridges. COFFEE CAKE. Take one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one cup- ful of butter, one cupful of lukewarm coffee, one tea-spoon- ful of soda dissolved in the molasses, one table-spoonful each of allspice, nutmeg, and cloves. Add plenty of currants, and make stiff with flour. GINGER FRUIT CAKE. Take three and one-half pints of flour; beat together one pint of butter, one pint of sugar, one pint of sweet milk, 286 The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. one pint of molasses with a little of the flour. Beat five eggs separately, put in the yelks, adding more flour, one ta- ble-spoonful of ginger, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one table-spoonful of cloves, two pints of seeded raisins, one pint of cut citron, one pound of sweet almonds rolled, two tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder — or if sour milk is used, one tea- spoonful of soda dissolved in the milk. Add the whites of the eggs last with the rest of the flour. Bake in a slow oven for three hours. Set a pan of water over the cake, to pre- vent it from burning. MOLASSES CAKE. Take one pound of flour, one-half pound of butter, one- half pound of sugar, one-half pint of molasses, six eggs. Beat the eggs and sugar together, mix butter and sugar, then add eggs and flour to that, then the molasses, a large spoonful of ginger, and two tea -spoonfuls baking-powder. SPONGE GINGER-BREAD. Take five cupfuls of flour, one heaping table-spoonful of butter, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of sour milk, two tea-spoonfuls of soda dissolved in hot water, two tea-spoonfuls of ground ginger, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon. Mix the molasses, sugar, and but- ter together, beat until they are lighter in color by many degrees than at first, add milk, soda, and spices, mix all well, and put in the flour. Beat very hard for five minutes, and bake in pie-pans in a moderate oven. Mrs. Stacys. GINGER-BREAD. Take three eggs, two pints of molasses, one-half pint of butter, one table-spoonful of soda dissolved in a pint of boil- ing water. Add flour enough for a stiff batter, one table- spoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, one nutmeg, two table-spoonfuls of ground ginger

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