Gingerbread

Ingredients

• one cup brown sugar
• one tablespoon butter
• one cup New Orleans molasses
• one cup sour milk
• one teaspoon soda
• two and a half cups flour
• ginger or spice to taste

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to cream, add molasses and mix well.

2. 2

   Then add sour milk and dissolved soda.

3. 3

   Mix all together and stir in flour.

4. 4

   Bake in one large loaf for one hour or two small loaves for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother Hubbard's cupboard (1887), page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGERBREAD. One-half cup butter, two cups molasses, one cup sugar, four cups flour, one cup sour milk, four eggs, one teaspoon saleratus, ginger and cloves. M. C. GINGERBREAD. One cup brown sugar, and one tablespoon butter, stirred to a cream; add one cup New Orleans molasses, and mix well; then add one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda dis- solved in a little of the sour milk. Mix all together, and stir in two and a half cups flour ; put in ginger or spice to taste

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