Gossamer Gingerbread
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1⅞ cups flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon yellow ginger
Steps
- Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then egg well beaten. Add milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Spread in a buttered dripping-pan as thinly as possible, using the back of mixing-spoon. Bake fifteen minutes. Sprinkle with sugar, and cut in small squares or diamonds before removing from pan.
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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.