Gingerbread

Ingredients

• ½ cup molasses
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 ½ teaspoons soda
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 1 even teaspoon cinnamon
• About three cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Mix as other cakes.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda; put half in the hot molasses and half in the sour cream.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven, it requires more care and longer baking than a cake made from all sugar.

4. 4

   Always put one or two papers in bottom of pan for cake that has molasses in it.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

gingerbread^ such as our grandmothers used to make on training days after the revolutionary war and was called Trainers' Gingerbread. Gingerbread. Yi cup molasses 2 eggs, well beaten J^ cup brown sugar % cup l)utter 1 cup sour cream i J^ teaspoons soda 2 teaspoons ginger i even teaspoon cinnamon About three cups flour. Mix as other cakes. Dissolve the soda; put half in the hot molasses and half in the sour cream. Bake in a moderate oven, it requires more care and longer baking than a cake made from all sugar* Always put one or two papers in bottom of pan for cake that has molasses in it. Gingerbread. 54 cup sugar % cup butter

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