Gingerbread, Mrs. Smith's

Ingredients

• three-quarters of a pound of treacle
• a quarter of a pound of honey
• half a pound of fresh butter
• one pound of flour
• two ounces of candied lemon
• one ounce of powdered ginger
• half a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Melt treacle, honey, and butter together.

2. 2

   Mix flour with candied lemon, ginger, and cinnamon, then beat all together and bake in well-buttered shallow tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 603. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a pound of fresh butter into two pounds of^floup; add a pinch of salt, a table-spoonful of baking-powder, and one ounce of ground ginger. Stir in two pounds of warmed treacle. Bake immediately, in a buttered tin, in a slow oven, for one hour and a half. Probable cost. Is. 6d. Sufiicient for a nine-inch tin. Gingerbread Loaf, Plain.— Put two pounds of treacle into a jar near the fire, with two ounces of butter, a quarter of a ounce of car- bonate of soda, previously dissolved in a very little milk, and strained, and four ounces of moist sugar. Mix an ounce of powdered ginger, and one small nutmeg, grated, with about three pounds of flour. WTien the butter is melted, stir the treacle &c., into the flour, and bake in a well-buttered, shallow tin, in a slow oven, for one hour and a half. Probable cost. Is. 2d. Sufiicient for a nine-inch tin. Gingerbread, Mrs. Fletcher's. (An Ediuburgh recipe.) — Mi.x half a pound of moist sugar, and two ounces of powdered ginger, with one pound of fine flour. Put haK a pound of fresh butter, and half a pound of treacle, into a jar near tiie fire. When the butter is melted, mix it with the fiour ^\'hile wai-m, and spread the mixture thinly on buttered tins. Mark it in squares before baking, and as soon as the ginger- biead is baked enough, separate it at the marks before it has time to harden. Time, ten or fifteen minutes to bake. Probable cost, Is. 2d. Gingerbread, Mrs. Smith's.— Melt together three-quarters of a poimd of treacle, a quarter of a pound of honey, and half a pound of frosh butter. Mix one pound of flour with two ounces of candied lemon, chopped small, one ounce of powdered ginger, and half a tea- spoonful of powdered cinnamo

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