Name: Thick, Light Gingerbread
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: butter, 8 oz.; water, very small cupful; carbonate of soda, ½ oz.; eggs, 3; powdered ginger, 2 oz.; sugar, ½ lbs.; Flour, 2 lbs.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

Flour, 2 lbs.
butter, 8 oz.
sugar, ½

Europe
United Kingdom
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Crumble down very small, eight ounces of butter into a couple of pounds of flour, then add to, and mix thoroughly with them, half a pound of good brown sugar, two ounces of powdered ginger, and

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