Hot Water Gingerbread

Ingredients

• One cup molasses
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 tablespoonful ginger
• 1 tablespoonful melted butter
• ¼ teaspoonful salt
• ½ cup boiling water
• 2 cups flour

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Two hundred tested recipes (1920) by North Carolina. Literature and Library Extension Department Woman's Club of Oxford, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

I cup boiling water, thicken with a little corn- starch. Beat until cold, put between layers; plain white icing on outside. MRS. CAM EASTON. MOLASSES CAKE Cream 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; add 1 egg and beat well; then 1 cup of molasses, ¥% cup of warm water in which 1 teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved, and % teaspoonful of cinnamon, 2 cups of flour. Beat well and bake in layers with any filling desired. MRS. OSCAR BREEDLOVE. 71 Ask your grocer for KNOX GELATINE—take no other. WHITE LOAF CAKE Whites of 1 doz. eggs beaten well, 34 lb. of good country butter, 2% cups of white sugar, 5 cups of flour, 1 good teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 tea- spoonful of vanilla, I teaspoonful of lemon, I cup of sweet milk. To mix: Cream butter well, add sugar, cream again, then add to butter and sugar I god cup sweet milk, cream milk well into the sugar and butter, then add half flour well sifted, mix, then add half of whites of eggs, mix well, then add rest of flour, mix again well, then add all whites of eggs, flavoring, and bake at once in slow oven, keeping heat about same, for an hour *andwaenalt,. MRSS Wier Ran: SOFT GINGERBREAD One cup sugar, 1 cup New Orleans molasses, %4 cup butter, 4% cup lard, 3 eggs, 3 cups sifted flour, 1 cup boiling water in which 2 level teaspoons soda have been dissolved, I teaspoon ginger, I teaspoon cinna- mon, I cup raisins, floured and added at the last. This mixture is very thin. MRS KATE ae HOT WATER GINGERBREAD One cup molasses, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful ginger, I tablespoonful melted butter, % teaspoonful salt, 4% cup boiling water, 2 cups flour. MISS KAGE désla Gk ie 92 ENOX GELATINE improves soups and gravies. SPONGE DROPS Beat 3 eggs lightly, add 34 of a cup of granulated sugar, I heaping cup of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and % teaspoonful of soda (or 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder). Flavor with I teaspoonful lemon extract; drop with teaspoon three inches apart on buttered tins. Miss Ari dea GROIX. COCOA DOUGHNUTS One egg, % cup sugar, % cup milk, %4 cup cocoa, 134 cups flour, 4 teaspoonful salt

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