Cambridge Gingerbread
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup butter
- ⅔ cup boiling water
- 1 cup molasses
- 1 egg
- 2¾ cups flour
- 1½ teaspoons soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- ¼ teaspoon clove
Steps
- Melt butter in water, add molasses, egg well beaten, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake in a buttered shallow pan.
More recipes with butter, molasses, eggs, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger or cloves
From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.