Gingerbread No. 2

Name: Gingerbread No. 2
Ingredients: 1 cup molasses; 1 cup sour or butter milk, or 1 cup butter and lard, mixed, 1 teaspoon spices, (cinnamon and cloves); 1 egg; ½ teaspoon ginger; 1 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon of soda, a little salt; ½ cup currants, or in season 1 quart blueberries; 3 cups flour

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settlement Cook Book

By Lizzie Black Kander

Published 1903

About

Ingredients

1 egg
½ teaspoon ginger
1 cup sugar

Bread
Baking

Method

Mix soda and sour milk and add to molasses. Cream butter add sugar, then the egg; sift remaining dry ingredients. Com-bine mixtures. Pour into buttered shallow pans and bake in a moderately hot oven.