Travellers’ Gingerbread

Ingredients

• One pound and a half of flour
• half a pound of butter
• one pound of sugar
• one ounce and a quarter of prepared ginger
• two eggs
• the grated rind of one lemon
• one large tea-spoonful of baking powder

Method

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   Rub very smoothly the baking powder; stir it into the flour, adding the ginger and lemon-peel; then rub in the butter, and the sugar, previously rolled; mix all together with the eggs, well beaten, and a spoonful or two of good cream, if required; roll the paste in balls, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Travellers’ Gingerbread. One pound and a half of flour, half a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one ounce and a quarter of prepared ginger, two eggs, the grated rind of one lemon, and one large tea-spoon- ful of baking powd

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