Soft Molasses Ginger Bread - Home Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 c. molasses
• 3/4 c. butter
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1/2 c. sour milk
• 1 egg
• 2 c. flour
• 2 tsp. ginger
• 1/4 tsp. salt

Method

1. 1

   Put batter and molasses into the saucepan and cook until boiling-point is reached.

2. 2

   Remove from the fire, add the soda, and beat vigorously.

3. 3

   Then add the milk, egg well beaten, and the remaining ingredients mixed and sifted.

4. 4

   Bake 15 minutes in buttered small pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic science (Clark, Cornell home economics) (1911) by Ida Hood Clark, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tsp. soda, ^ tsp. salt, ^ c. shortening, 3^ c. flour. School Recipe. 2 tsp. molasses, 1 s.s. ginger, | s.s. soda, 1 speck of salt, ^ tbsp. shortening, 2^ tbsp. flour. Method. Heat the molasses, pour over the shorten- ing, add the dry ingredients after they have been sifted thoroughly, chill thoroughly. This may be done by put- ting in the ice chest for a short time, or by putting in a cold bowl that has had ice in it. Now toss on a flour board and roll very thin. Use as little flour as is possible, because by using less flour the cookies will be more crisp. Cut with a cooky-cutter and bake in a moderate oven, as they burn easily. Soft Molasses Ginger Bread — Home Recipe. 1 c. molasses, -3- c. butter. If tsp. soda, ^ c. sour milk, 1 egg, 2 c. flour, 2 tsp. ginger

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