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; tablespoonful rose water or milk; eight eggs; a half teacup of ginger

From The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ..., 1906

This is a very old recipe but still in use.

Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ... (1906) by [name missing], page 11. 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 rose water or milk, eight eggs, a half teacup of ginger

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