Hot Water Gingerbread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published 1896

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup molasses.
  • ½ cup boiling water.
  • cups

Method

Add water to molasses. Mix and sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures, add butter, and beat vigorously. Pour into a buttered shallow pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Chicken fat tried out and clarified furnishes an excellent shortening, and may be used in place of butter.