Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 1 lb. treacle or golden syrup
• -I lb. butter
• 2 oz. sugar
• 1 oz. lemon peel
• 1 oz. grated ginger, or to taste
• 1 teaspoonful bi- carbonate of soda
• 1 small teacup of milk
• 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put the treacle, butter and sugar into a saucepan over the fire to dissolve.

2. 2

   Beat the eggs, and cut the peel finely.

3. 3

   Mix the flour, ginger, and peel in a basin, then stir the eggs and treacle in, and beat well; dissolve the soda in the milk, add it, and beat well again; it should be moist enough to easily pour into a greased shallow tin, and bake in a moderate oven about 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGERBREAD. Ingredients : — 1 lb. flour. 1 lb. treacle or golden syrup. -I lb. butter. 2 oz. sugar. 1 oz. lemon peel. 1 oz. grated ginger, or to taste. 1 teaspoonful bi- carbonate of soda. 1 small teacup of milk. 2 eggs

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