New York Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (scant)
• 1½ cups flour
• 2 tablespoons yellow ginger
• 5 eggs
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Steps

1. Cream the butter, and add flour gradually, mixed and sifted with ginger. Beat the yolks of the eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add sugar gradually. Combine mixtures, add whites of eggs, beaten until stiff, and sift over baking powder. Beat thoroughly, turn into a buttered deep cake pan, and bake one hour in a moderate oven.

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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.