Molasses Drops

Ingredients

• cup butter
• teaspoon salt
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon soda
• flour

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water over butter; add remaining ingredients, using sufficient flour to make a drop batter.

2. 2

   Drop from tablespoon onto buttered tin.

3. 3

   Bake in moderate oven fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Molasses Drops \ cup. butter^ \ teaspoon salt "I cup boiling water 1 tablespoon ginger I cup molasses 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon soda flour Pour boiling water over butter ; add remaining ingredi- ents, using sufficient flour to make a drop batter. Drop from tablespoon on to buttered tin. Bake in moderate oven fifteen minutes. New York Gingerbread f cup butter If cups powdered sugar 1^ cups flour 1 tablespoon yellow ginger 5 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder \ teaspoon salt Cream butter ; add flour. Add remaining ingredients and beat ten minutes. Bake in buttered bread pan forty- five to sixty minutes. Meringues 1 cup egg whites 1 cup fine granulated sugar \ teaspoon salt ^ teaspoon vanilla Add salt to eggs ; beat until very stiff. Add two table- spoons sugar, beat five minutes. So continue until half the sugar is used. When very stiff, cut and fold in the remaining sugar. Drop by spoonfuls on to wet paper on inverted dripping pan. Bake in slow oven thirty minutes. Remove from paper ; take out uncooked portion ; dry in oven. Cool and fill with whipped cream or ice cream. Arrange in pairs. 268 lowney's cook book Superior Gingerbread I cup butter 3 cups flour 1 cup molasses IJ teaspoons soda 1 cup boiling water

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