Soft Molasses Gingerbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup molasses
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1¾ teaspoons soda
- ½ cup sour milk
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons ginger
- ½ teaspoon salt
Steps
- Put butter and molasses in saucepan and cook until boiling-point is reached. Remove from fire, add soda, and beat vigorously. Then add milk, egg well beaten, and remaining ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake fifteen minutes in buttered small tin pans, having pans two-thirds filled with mixture.
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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.