Home Gingerbread, No. 2

Ingredients

• seven teacupfuls of flour
• one pint of molasses
• one cup of sour cream
• one cup of butter
• one table-spoonful of ginger
• one table-spoonful of soda
• three-quarters of a pound of light-brown sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and add spices for flavoring.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Home Gingbbbbead, No. 2. Take seven teacupfuls of flour, one pint of molasses, one cup of sour cream, one cup of butter, one table-spoon- ful of ginger, one table-spoonful of soda dissolved in part of the cream or a little milk ; add three-quarters of a pound of light-brown sugar ; also other spices, if you like a higher flavoring. Lady Cake. One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, whites of eleven eggs, a teaspoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar, nearly half a pint of sweet milk; cream the butter and add the sugar to it, beating dili- gently; sift the cream of tartar into the flour, so that it will diffuse itself throughout the mass ; add the soda to the milk last of all; season with a teaspoonful of extract of bitter-almonds, and put to bake without delay. Pbeston Oingbb Cakb. One quart of flour, four ounces of butter, one table- spoonful of ginge

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