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AUNT MOLLY'S GINGER-BREAD.
Three and a half pounds flour, one of butter, one quart molasses, half pint
milk, one tea-spoon soda; mix the milk, molasses, and flour together, melt, and
add the butter; roll out on the sheets and bake. This recipe is one hundred
years old.--Mrs. Woodworth, Springfield, Mass.
ALUM GINGER-BREAD.
Pint molasses, tea-cup melted lard, table-spoon ginger, table-spoon salt,
tea-cup boiling water; in half the water dissolve table-spoon pulverized alum,
and in the other half a heaping table-spoon soda; stir in just flour enough to
knead, roll about half inch thick, cut in oblong cards, and bake in a tolerably
quick oven.--Mrs. Wm. Patrick, Midland, Mich.
GINGER-BREAD.
One gallon molasses or strained honey, one and a quarter pounds butter, quarter
pound soda stirred in a half tea-cup sweet milk, tea-spoon alum dissolved in
just enough water to cover it, flour to make it stiff enough to roll out; put
the molasses in a very large dish, add the soda and butter melted, then all the
other ingredients; mix in the evening and set in a warm place to rise over
night; in the morning knead it a long time like bread, roll into squares half an
inch thick and bake in bread-pans in an oven heated about right for bread. To
make it glossy, rub over the top just before putting it into the oven the
following: One well-beaten egg, the same amount or a little more sweet cream,
stirring cream and egg well together. This ginger-bread will keep an unlimited
time.
The recipe is complete without ginger, but two table-spoons may be used if
preferred.--Over fifty years old, and formerly used for general muster days.
EXCELLENT SOFT GINGER-BREAD.
One and a half cups Orleans molasses, half cup brown sugar, half cup butter,
half cup sweet milk, tea-spoon soda, tea-spoon allspice, half tea-spoon ginger;
mix all together thoroughly, add three cups sifted flour and bake in shallow
pans.--Mrs. S. Watson.
for "SPONGE GINGER-BREAD": "One cup sour milk," changed to "One (and 1/2) cup
sour milk (and cream); "a half cup butter" change to "did not one"; "two eggs"
changed to "1" egg; and "one teaspoon soda" changed to "one teaspoon soda
(tablespoon in a little hot water)".
SPONGE GINGER-BREAD.
One cup sour milk, one of Orleans molasses, a half cup butter two eggs, one
tea-spoon soda, one table-spoon ginger, flour to make
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