Hard Gingerbread

Ingredients

• one pound lard
• one-half pound butter
• one and one-half pounds brown sugar
• three pints of West India molasses
• enough flour to make a stiff dough
• ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves

Method

1. 1

   Beat lard and butter to cream, add brown sugar and molasses.

2. 2

   Mix in spices and enough flour to form a stiff dough.

3. 3

   Roll out thin and cut with a cutter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 138. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One pound lard, one-half pound butter, beaten to a cream, one and one-half pounds brown sugar, three pints of West India molasses, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves, enough flour to make a stifl" doug

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