Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 2 cups molasses
• 2 cups sour milk
• 1 cup lard (or lard and butter)
• 6 cups flour
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sour milk, (clabber preferred)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder beaten into the milk
• Cinnamon, allspice, ginger

Method

1. 1

   Put half the dough into pan, then put a layer of raisins or currants, then add remainder of dough.

2. 2

   Bake slowly in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGERBREAD. Mrs. B. D. Berry, Chester, Pa. 2 cups molasses. 2 cups sour milk. 1 cup lard (or lard and butter). 6 cups flour. 2 cups brown sugar. 4 eggs. 2 cups sour milk, (clabber pre- ferred) . 2 teaspoons baking powder beaten into tbe milk. Cinnamon, allspice, ginger

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