Gingerbread. Recipe No. 3. (Hard.)

Take: Molasses, 1 pt.; butter, ½ lb.; sour milk, 1 teacupful; ground ginger, 2 tablespoonfuls; soda, 1 tablespoonful; cloves, 1 tablespoonful; lemon, rind of 1; flour.

Mix one pint of molasses, half a pound of butter, one cupful of sour milk, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, one tablespoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of cloves, the rind of one lemon (grated), and flour enough to make a stiff paste. Butter the tin sheets, roll the dough on them, sprinkle lightly with sugar as thin as possible, and bake in a quick oven.

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