Gingerbread

Ingredients

• Two eggs
• one cup molasses
• two cups flour
• half cup brown sugar
• one tablespoon butter
• one of lard
• one teaspoon soda
• one cup of boiling water
• one teaspoon of ginger
• a little cinnamon
• allspice

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter and lard, then add sugar, eggs, molasses, and flour.

2. 2

   Mix in spices and dissolved soda last.

3. 3

   Bake in a large shallow tin in a moderately hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 96. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGERBREAD. Mrs. George Al- fred Miller, No. 18 Navy street, Ocean Park, Cal.— One cup sugar, cup N. O. molasses, three cups flour, sifted; half cup lard, half cup but- ter, one cup boiling water, one teaspoon each of soda, ginger' and cinnamon, two eggs. Bake slowly one hour. NO. 27. GINGERBREAD. Mrs. George E. Decker, box 642, Pasadena, Cal.— Two eggs, one cup molasses, two cups flour, half cup brown sugar, one tablespoon butter, one of lard, one teaspoon soda dissolved in one cup of boiling water; one teaspoon of ginger, a little cinnamon and allspice

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