Hard Sugar Gingerbread

Name: Hard Sugar Gingerbread
Ingredients: ¾ cup butter; 1½ cups sugar; ¾ cup milk; 5 cups flour; ¾ tablespoon baking powder; 1½ teaspoons salt; ¾ tablespoon ginger

Ingredients

¾ cup butter
1½ cups sugar
¾ cup milk
5 cups flour
¾ tablespoon baking powder
1½ teaspoons salt
¾ tablespoon ginger

Steps

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Put some of mixture on an inverted dripping-pan and roll as thinly as possible to cover pan. Mark dough with a coarse grater. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Before removing from pan, cut in strips four and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide.

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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.