Soft Gingerbread No. 3

Ingredients

• One cup of molasses
• one of sugar
• half a cup of butter and lard mixed
• one cup of sour milk
• two eggs
• three cups of flour
• two teaspoons even full of soda
• two teaspoonsful of cinnamon
• one and a half of ginger
• one of cloves
• a little grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Bake in square tins fifteen or twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little grated nutmeg; work all well together, mould it out, let it get very light, and bake in a quiok oyen^ either as rusk or all in one loaf. * Dried Busk. Boil a quart of milk, stir in it half a pound of butter and a little salt. When oool, but not coldy add a pound of sifted sugar, flour to make a stiff batter, and a teacup of yeast. Set this over night ; in the morning, add enough flour to make a soft dough, and let it rise until very light ; then roll out a little more than half an inch thick, cut them out the size of tea-biscuit, lay them in well-greased pans, two layers in each pan ; let them rise until very light, and bake about half an hour in a quick oven. When tone, break them apart, spread them separately in pans, and let ihem dry slowly in a moderate oven until crisp and brown. If they are put in bags and hung up when cold, they will keep a jong time, and are nice for delicate persons or young children. * Soft Gingerbread* Ho. 1. Two cups of sugar, one of butter, one of thick milk, one of molasses, three of flour, three eggs, a tablespoonftil of ginger, naif a teaspoon of soda. Beat the eggs, butter and sugar to- gether, add the milk with the soda dissolved in it, then the molasses, spice and flour. Bake in square tins about twenty minutes. Try it with a broom splint * Soft Oingerbread, Ho. 2. Five cups of flour, four eggs, two cups of molasses, one of sugar, a tablespoonful of ginger, one cup of butter, and a tea- spoonfal of soda or saleratus dissolved in a little milk or cream. Stir the butter and sugar together, then add the spice, eggs and ma asses, thet the flour, and last the soda beat hard, and bake CAKE. 251 in sqaare tins or one large cake. Twenty minutes will be about the time required, if in square tins ; if in one large cake, nearly an hour. Test with a splint. * Soft Gingerbread, Ho. 8. One cup of molasses, one of sugar, half a cup of butter and lard mixed, one cup of sour milk, two eggs, three cups of flour, two teaspoons even Ml of soda, two teaspoonsful of cinnamon, one and a half of ginger

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.