Soft Ginger Bread

Ingredients

• 4 cups sifted flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1 t-spoon soda
• 1/2 cup chopped raisins
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbls. ginger

Method

1. 1

   Add above ingredients in order given; beat well together.

2. 2

   Dissolve 1 teaspoon soda in 0.5 cup cold water and stir in the last thing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Atlanta women's club cook book (1921) by Atlanta woman's club, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 eggs. 2/3 cups brown sugar. 2/3 cup of flour. 2/3 t-spoon baking powder. Cream the sugar with yolks of eggs and add whites beaten light. Add the flour in which baking powder and salt have been mixed. Stir in the dates and nuts, spread in a buttered pan and bake in a quick oven. When cold cut in squares. Mrs. Omar F. Elder, — State Chairman. CAKES, COOKIES AND ICINGS 121 DATE STICKS. 1 cup dates. 2 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 tbls. milk. 1 cup nut meats. 1 t-spoon Royal baking pow- 1 cup flour. der. Cut dates in four (4) pieces, break up nuts and mix with dates ; add sugar then milk with yolks of the eggs — put in mixture and mix well, then the flour with the baking powder. It will seem too stiff but not so — bake in biscuit pan about V2 hour and cut sticks and roll in powdered sugar. This is very nice for picnics, afternoon teas, etc. If you like they can be cut in little squares for tea. Mrs. George Brower, — Auditor Woman's Club. FRUIT BARS. 1 cup sugar. 3 eggs. 1 cup nut meats, 1 cup dates cut up. 1 cup flour. 1 t-spoon Royal baking pow- 1/8 t-spoon salt. der. Beat sugar and eggs together; sift baking-powder and salt to- gether. Combine all ingredients, adding last the dates and nuts which have been dredged in flour, and pour into a large, greased pan and bake 1/2 hour. It may then be frosted, or else cut in bars, and dipped in powdered sugar. This recipe makes 21/0 dozen. Mrs. Clayton Mosher, Dunkirk, N. Y. BOSTON COOKIES. 1 cup butter or substitute. 1 t-spoon salt. 11/2 cups sugar. 1 t-spoon cinnamon. 3 eggs. 1 cup chopped nuts. 1 t-spoon soda. V2 cup currants. 11/2 tbls. hot water. 1/2 cup raisins (chopped). 314 cups (sifted) flour. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, then soda dis- solved in hot water and half of flour with salt and cinnamon, then add nut meats, fruit and remaining flour. Drop by spoonfuls on buttered sheets about an inch apart. Bake in moderate oven. Mrs. W. W. Berley. South Carolina. PECAN STRIPS. 2 cups brown sugar. II/2 t-spoons baking powder. 11/2 cups flour. 11/2 t-spoons vanilla. 1 cup pecan meats. 4 eggs. Beat eggs separately, then mix with sugar and cook in double boiler, stirring until mixture begins to thicken. Cool, then stir in other ingredients. Bake about 20 minutes in a biscuit pan. Cut in inch wide strips and dust with powdered sugar. Mrs. Eugene Black. 122 ATLANTA WOMAN'S CLUB COOK BOOK OATMEAL 2 cups oatmeal. 1 cup sugar. 1/2 cup butter. 2 cups seeded raisins. 1 t-spoon soda. 1 t-spoon vanilla. Combine soda, flour, spices and oatmeal. Cream butter, lard, and sugar together, add beaten eggs ; stir the two mixtures together and add milk. Drop off spoon on buttered tin and bake. Mrs. J. W. Hardwick. JUMBLES. 2 cups flour. 1/2 cup lard. 14 cup milk. 2 eggs. 1 t-spoon each cloves, allspice. TEA CAKES (VERY GOOD) Flour. 2 eggs. 1/2 cup butter. 2 t-spoons Royal baking pow- der. 1 cup sugar. 2 tbls. milk. 1 t-spoon vanilla. Cream butter and sugar well ; add eggs beaten together, then milk and flavoring, sift in baking powder. Add sufficient flour to this mixture to make stiff dough. Roll 14 inch thick and cut any desired shape. Bake in moderate oven. Mrs. J. E. Collier. SOFT GINGER BREAD. 4 cups sifted flour. 1/2 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 1 1 cup molasses. 2 1 cup sour milk. 1 Add above ingredients in order given ; beat well together. Dis- solve 1 t-spoon soda in i/> cup cold water and stir in the last thing. Mrs. R. S. Hilley. cup chopped raisins. eggs. tbls. ginger.

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