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Soft Gingerbread (Molasses)

From The housekeeper's companion, 1883

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Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soft Gingerbread {Molasses). — Take half a pint of sour milk, half a pint of molasses, one teacupful of butter, or salted lard, or beef fat, one large teaspoonful of saleratus, dissolved in a little hot water, two well beaten eggs, half a nutmeg, grated, a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, and a large spoon- ful of ground ginge

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