How To Make Gingerbread
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This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
How To Make Gingerbread
Hard Gingerbread
1½ cups butter 2½ cups sugar 6 eggs.
1 teaspoon soda.
¼ cup milk.
3 teaspoons ginger.
8 cups flour.
Cream butter; add remaining ingredients. Spread quarter inch thick on buttered inverted dripping pan. Roll with creased rolling pin. Bake in quick oven. Cut in squares. Cool and keep in air-tight receptacles.
New York Gingerbread
¾ cup butter 1½ cups flour 5 eggs.
1¾ cups powdered sugar 1 tablespoon yellow ginger 1 teaspoon baking powder.
¼ teaspoon salt.
Cream butter; add flour. Add remaining ingredients and beat ten minutes. Bake in buttered bread pan forty-five to sixty minutes.
Superior Gingerbread
⅓ cup butter.
1 cup molasses.
1 cup boiling water.
1 egg.
1 teaspoon grated orange peel.
3 cups flour 1½ teaspoons soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
Mix ingredients in order given. Beat well and bake in loaf thirty minutes, or in muffin pans twenty minutes.
Sour Milk Gingerbread
1 cup molasses.
1 cup sour milk.
2 cups flour.
1 egg.
2 teaspoons ginger.
2 teaspoons soda.
½ teaspoon salt.
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add remaining ingredients, beat well, pour into buttered pan, and bake twenty to thirty minutes.
Hot Water Gingerbread
1 cup molasses.
2 cups flour.
1 teaspoon soda 1 tablespoon ginger.
2 to 4 tablespoons butter or beef suet ½ cup boiling water ½ teaspoon salt.
⅓ teaspoon cinnamon.
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add remaining ingredients. Bake twenty to thirty minutes.
Rochester Gingerbread
½ cup beef drippings ½ cup brown sugar 1 cup sour milk 1 cup molasses.
2 eggs.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons ginger.
Melt the beef drippings, add remaining ingredients, beat well, and bake in deep bread pans in a moderate oven.
Ginger Snaps
1 cup molasses ¼ to ½ cup butter, suet, or chicken fat.
3 cups flour ½ teaspoon soda 1 tablespoon ginger.
2 teaspoons salt.
Boil shortening and molasses two minutes. Add remaining ingredients, mixed and sifted. Beat well; chill over night. Roll very thin. Shape with knife or cutter. Bake on buttered pan in quick oven eight to ten minutes.
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