Hard Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoonful baking soda
• 1 tablespoonful ginger
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/8 teaspoonful salt
• 1/2 cup molasses

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift the dry ingredients, heat the molasses gently, and stir in the butter until dissolved.

2. 2

   Then add the dry mixture.

3. 3

   Roll thin, and spread the dough on the inverted bottom of a dripping pan.

4. 4

   Bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of food preparation (1914) by Mary Davoren Molony Chambers, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 teaspoonful salt. 1 egg. 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. 2 tablespoonfuls milk. Y2 cup sugar. ^ to 1 cupful chopped nuts. Method. Cream the butter, add the sugar, add the egg, previously well beaten, add the flour — sifted with FLOUR MIXTURES AND LEAVENS: DOUGHS 159 the salt and baking powder — alternately with the milk; lastly stir in the nuts. Roll out moderately thin, cut into rounds, and bake for about 10 m. Hard Gingerbread Ingredients. 2 cups flour. }/2 teaspoonful baking soda. 1 tablespoonful ginger. /^ cup butter.

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