Gordon Highlander Gingerbread

Ingredients

• ^ a lb. of flour
• 2 oz. of brown sugar
• 2 oz. peel
• ^ of an egg or i small egg
• J/2 teaspoonful of soda
• ]4 of a cup of milk
• X oz. of ginger
• X oz. of mace
• X oz. of cinnamon
• 3 oz. of butter
• in }^ pint of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, brown sugar, peel, beaten egg, soda with milk, ginger, mace, and cinnamon.

2. 2

   Slowly beat in warmed butter and molasses.

3. 3

   Bake slowly in a tin lined with buttered paper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Allied cookery (1916) by Harrison, Grace Clergue Mrs., page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GORDON HIGHLANDER GINGERBREAD put in a mixing bowl ^ a lb. of flour, 2 oz. of brown sugar, 2 oz. peel, ^ of an egg or i small egg, well beaten, J/2 teaspoonful of soda mixed with ]4 of a cup of milk, X oz. each of ginger, mace, and cinnamon, then beat into this slowly 3 oz. of butter that has been warmed in }^ pint of molasses

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