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Sugar Gingerbread
From Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book, 1884
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 227. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
3^ cup cream. 13^ cup sugar. Sugar Gingerbread. 2 teaspoonfuls ginger. 1 teaspoonful soda, scant. Mix stiff with j^owr. Roll thick or thin. 1 cup molasses. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1 tablespoonful ginger. 1 tablespoonful butter, melted. Hot Water Gingerbread. % teaspoonful salt. % cup boiling water. 2 cups flour. Bake in a deep Mix in the order given, and beat well, cake pan. Sour Milk Gingerbread. 1 tablespoonful butter, softened. 1 cup sour milk. 23^ cups pastry flour, with an- other 3^ teaspoonful soda mixed with it, sour cream is used. Bake 3^ cup molasses. 3^ teaspoonful soda. )^ teaspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful ginger. 3^ cup sugar. Omit the butter when muffin pans. Ginger Snaps. 1 cup molasses. % cup sugar. 1 tablespoonful ginger. m {Mrs, H. B. May.) 1 teaspoonful soda. 3^ cup softened butter. Flour to roll out very thin. Heat the molasses, pour it over the sugar ; add the ginger, soda, butter, and flour. Cut, and bake quickly. Ginger Drops (without Butter). 2 eggs, well beaten. 1 cup brown sugar. 2 teaspoonfuls ginger. 1 cup N. 0. molasses, boiled. 1 teaspoonful soda. Flour to roll out. Mix in the order given. Roll thin, cut with a very small cutter, and bake in a quick oven. If you like, add one tablespoonful of vinegar before adding the flour, and use a heaping teaspoonful of soda. The Boston Cook Book, Soft Molasses Cookies. {A. W.) 1 cup molasses. 2 tablesp. warm water or milk. 1 tablespoonful ginger. )^ cup butter, softened 1 teaspoonf ul soda. 1 Flour to mix soft. Mix in the order given, dissolving the soda in the milk. Eoll out one third of an inch thick. Cut in small rounds. Cream Cakes. 1 cup hot water. }^ teaspoonful salt. 3^ cup butter
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