Great Grandmother's Gingerbread

Name: Great Grandmother's Gingerbread
Ingredients: Four pounds of flour; two pounds of sugar; a pound and a half of butter; a teaspoon of soda; dissolved in tablespoonful rose water or milk; eight eggs; a half teacup of ginger

From The Pocumtuc housewife, 1897

This is a very old recipe but still in use.

Presented as published in 1897. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pocumtuc housewife (1897), page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Great Grandmother's Gingerbread. Four pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, a pound and a half of butter, a teaspoon of soda dissolved in tablespoonful 32 rose water or milk, eight eggs, a half teacup of ginger

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