Sugar Card Gingerbread

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• one of sour milk
• two of brown sugar
• two eggs
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two of ginger
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• six scant cupfuls of flour
• one tablespoonful of water

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, gradually beat in the sugar, then add salt and ginger.

2. 2

   Add the eggs, beaten.

3. 3

   Dissolve the soda in water and stir into sour milk.

4. 4

   Add the liquid to the mixture and gradually beat in the flour.

5. 5

   Roll out to half an inch thick, cut in squares, place in buttered pans, and bake in a hot oven for about eight minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 407. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sugar Card Gingerbread. Use one cupful of butter, one of sour milk, two of brown sugar, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two of ginger, half a teaspoonful of salt, six scant cupf uls of flour, and one table-spoonful of wate

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