New Orleans Gingerbread

1856

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    8 to 12

    Servings.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

  • About

Hannah Hungary Widdifield (1768-1854) was a Quaker confectioner in Philadelphia and rival of Elizabeth Goodfellow. Like Mrs. Goodfellow, she also ran a cooking school, and her recipes are structured after the Goodfellow method, that is, ingredients are listed first.

In this, one of Widdifield’s most charming Christmas recipes, grated orange zest adds unusual char