Hard Gingerbread (Mrs. Dewey)

Ingredients

• % pound butter
• pound sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in 3 tablespoonfuls milk
• 1 tablespoonful ginger
• 2 pounds flour
• 3 tablespoonfuls milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter; add the sugar and beaten eggs, and beat well.

2. 2

   Sift in the ginger, strain the soda, and add the flour.

3. 3

   Roll half an inch thick, or thin as a wafer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 227. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hard Gingerbread. (Mrs, Dewey.) . % pound butter, pound sugar. 6 eggs. 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in 3 tablespoonfuls milk. 1 tablespoonful ginger. 2 pounds flour

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