Gingerbread. Recipe No. 2. (Fleming.)
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Take: Butter and sugar, ¼ lb. each; molasses, ½ pt.; eggs, 4; flour, 1½ pts.; ground ginger, 1 tablespoonful; cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful; soda, 1 teaspoonful.
Stir together a quarter pound each of butter and brown sugar; add half a pint of molasses. Beat four eggs to a froth, and stir them into the mixture alternately with a scant pint and a half of flour; add a heaping tablespoonful of ground ginger, and a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon. Stir together well. Dissolve a level teaspoonful of soda in two tablespoonfuls of warm water, and stir this in last. Put the mixture into a buttered tin pan, set at once in brisk (not too hot) oven and bake well. Test with a straw.
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