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Soft Molasses Gingerbread

From Principles of food preparation, 1914

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This recipe was extracted from Principles of food preparation (1914) by Mary Davoren Molony Chambers, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soft Molasses Gingerbread Make a thick batter, the wetting to be three parts of molasses to one part of water. Use one-fourth as much butter as flour, and one-fourth as much ground ginger as butter

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