Soft Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon ginger, Bee Brand
• 1 teaspoon allspice, Bee Brand
• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Bake in shallow pans in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Central cook book (1924) by N.C.). Circle Number Three Central Methodist Church (Raleigh, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soft Gingerbread 1 cup molasses. lg cup sugar. Y% cup butter. 16 cup milk. 2 eggs. 1 tablespoon ginger, Bee Brand. 1 teaspoon allspice, Bee Brand. 2 cups flour. 11% teaspoons baking powder. Bake in shallow pans in moderate oven. Mrs. A. D. Savage. Spice Cakes 3 tablespoons shortening. 4 tablespoons sugar. 34 cup corn syrup or molasses. 1 egg. 4 cup milk. 2 cups flour. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 4 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Bee Brand. 14 teaspoon spice. 14 teaspoon nutmeg, Bee Brand. 14 teaspoon cloves. 4 cup chopped raisins. These little individual spice cakes, baked in muffin tins are very good. Miss Ruta WratuHeErty. Doughnuts (Sour Milk) 2 eggs. 1 quart flour. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup sour milk or cream. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon melted butter. Season to taste, using Bee Brand 14 teaspoon Bee Brand cinnamon vanilla or nutmeg. Put the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and sugar into a bowl. Dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of hot water. Add to the sour milk and then add the melted lard. Beat the egos until light and add to the milk. Add the wet ingredients to the dry. Roll out to one-fourth inch thickness, cut, and fry in deep fat. Do not put in more than five doughnuts at a time or the fat will be cooled too greatly. Let the fat re-heat between fryings. Turn the doughnuts while frying; drain on plain paper. Makes three dozen doughnuts. Sweet milk may be used in place of sour milk by using two teaspoons baking powder in place of soda. Miss Ruta WEaATHERLY. Doughnuts 2 cups flour. 4 teaspoon salt. Yo cup sugar. 144 teaspoon Bee Brand cinnamon. Y cup milk. 1 egg. | About 3 tablespoons butter. Beat egg, add sugar, butter and milk, then flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Make the dough as soft as can be handled. Take a small portion, roll out one-half inch thick, fry — in deep hot fat. Mrs. T. T. WELtons. ae Knox Sparkling Gelatine improves Soups and Gravies Ginger Bread 3 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup molasses. 1 cup butter. 3 cups flour. 1 cup sour milk. 2 teaspoons ginger. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 teaspoon cloves. 2 teaspoons soda. Bake in moderate oven. Miss Janre Harrineron. Wonders 1 egg. 14 teaspoon salt. About 34 cup flour. Beat the egg, add salt and enough flour to make a stiff dough, about three-fourths cup will usually be sufficient. Roll out on a floured board till as thin as a wafer and cut with a large round cutter. Drop separately into hot fat, fry golden brown, drain well and dust with powered sugar. Sugar may be omitted when served hot with butter. Miss Ruto Dew. Doughnuts lf cup shortening. 2/3 cup sugar. 2 eggs. 14 cup milk. ; 31% cups flour. 2/4 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 4 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 teaspoon salt. Miss Mitprep H. Smiru. Cookies 1 pound sugar. 14 pound lard. 3 eggs. ¥ teaspoon lemon extract. Empty in bowl and mix, add one teaspoon soda, one-fourth pint sweet, sour or butter milk, stir, add two pounds flour, mix well, roll, cut, and brush with milk and eggs mixed, then dip in cocoanut, and bake. To keep dough for any length of time, wet paper and cover dough. Set in ice box. Mrs. Epwarp E. Crane. Sugar Cookies 4 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 2 eggs. 2 cups flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 14 teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon milk. 1 agua lemon or vanilla, Bee rand. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add to mixture milk and flavoring. If dough it not stiff enough to roll add more flour, turn out on floured board and roll thin, cut in fancy shapes. Bake in moderate oven. Mrs. S. M. Swan. 78 Ask your grocer for Knox Gelatine—take no other MUFFINS AND WAFFLES Corn-Meal Muffins 1 cup corn meal. 1 cup flour. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon sugar. 4 teaspoon soda. 11% cups milk. 2 tablespoons melted butter. Sift the meal, flour, salt and sugar. Stir soda in milk, then add the dry ingredients, then the melted butter. Beat well and bake in oiled muffin tins twenty-five or thirty minutes. Miss JnanettE CrowbeEr. Corn-Meal Muffins 14 cup corn meal 1 tablespoon melted butter. 1 cup flour. 14 teaspoon salt. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 34 cup milk (sweet). 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 egg. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add the milk gradually, then the ege well beaten, and the melted butter. Bake in a hot oven in buttered gem pans for twenty-five minutes. Miss Ruta WeatHeERLy. Muffins 1 cup flour. 1 cup meal. 1 cup milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder

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