Soft Molasses Gingerbread

Ingredients

• a cupful of molasses
• a cupful of sour cream
• two cupfuls of flour
• an egg
• a large teaspoonful of ginger
• two level teaspoonfuls of soda
• half a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Put the molasses, cream, salt, and ginger into a bowl.

2. 2

   Beat the egg well.

3. 3

   Dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of cold water, and stir the liquid into the mixture in the bowl.

4. 4

   Add the beaten egg, and then the flour, and after beating the batter vigorously for one minute, pour it into two buttered shallow pans, and bake for twenty minutes in a rather hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 405. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two cupfuls of flour. Give the batter another good stirring, and spreading it two inches thick in shallow tin pans, bake it in a rather quick oven for from twenty to twenty-five minutes. This cake when hot is particularly nice for luncheon. * Delicate Molasses Gingerbread. Use two cupfuls of flour, measured after sifting, one cupful of molasses, half a cupful of sour milk or cream, one teaspoonful of soda, one of ginger, half a teaspoon- ful of salt, one generous table-spoonful of butter, and one of water. Put the molasses, milk, salt, and ginger in a bowl. Dissolve the soda in the cold water, and add it, with the butter, melted, to the mixture in the bowl. Now add the flour, and beat quickly. Pour the mixture into three deep tin plates that have been well buttered, and bake 768 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. in a quick oven for from eighteen to twenty minutes. Serve while fresh ; it will be especially nice then. * Soft Molasses Gingerbread. A cupful of molasses, a cupful of sour cream, two cup- fuls of flour, an egg, a large teaspoonf ul of ginger, two level teaspoonf uls of soda, and half a teaspoonf ul of sal

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