Hot Water Gingerbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup molasses
- ½ cup boiling water
- 2¼ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1½ teaspoons ginger
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
Steps
- Add water to molasses. Mix and sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures, add butter, and beat vigorously. Pour into a buttered shallow pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Chicken fat dried out and clarified furnishes an excellent shortening, and may be used in place of butter.
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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.