Honey Gingerbread

Ingredients

• a generous half cup of butter
• two cups of strained honey
• one tablespoon of powdered sugar
• a tablespoon of ginger
• one-half teaspoon of cinnamon
• the beaten yolks of four eggs
• three even cups of flour
• one teaspoon of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and honey together.

2. 2

   Beat in the powdered sugar, ginger, and cinnamon.

3. 3

   Add the beaten yolks of eggs, alternating with the frothed whites, and the sifted flour with baking powder.

4. 4

   Beat for one minute and bake in buttered shallow pans for 45 minutes.

5. 5

   Keep covered for 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Honey Gingerbread. — Wami a generous haJf cup of butter and beat into it two cups of strained honey. When you have a light cream beat in one tablespoon of powdered sugar, a tablespoon of ginger and one- half teaspoon of cinnamon. Add the beaten yolks of four eggs, and al- ternately with the frothed whites, three even cups of flour sifted twice with one teaspoon of baking powder

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