Gingerbread. Recipe No. 1.
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Take: Sugar, ½ lb.; butter, ½ lb.; flour, 2 lbs.; caraway seed, 1 oz.; ground ginger, 1 oz.; coriander seed, ½ oz.; molasses, 1¾ lbs.
Rub together half a pound of fine sugar and half a pound of butter; then add two pounds of flour, well dried by the fire, one ounce of caraway seed, one ounce of ground ginger, and half an ounce of coriander seed. Mix them with one and three quarter pounds of molasses, roll thin, and bake in a quick oven.
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