Gingerbread. Recipe No. 4. (Soft.)
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Take: Butter, 1 teacupful, melted; molasses, 1 pt.; ground ginger, 1 tablespoonful; flour, 1 pt.; eggs, 2; soda, 2 teaspoonfuls; sour milk, ½ pt.; flour; lemon peel.
Mix a teacupful of melted butter with a pint of molasses, a tablespoonful of ground ginger, a pint of flour, and two beaten eggs; a fresh lemon peel, cut into strips, may be added. Mix two teaspoonfuls of soda in half a pint of sour milk, stir it into the cake, and add flour enough to make soft sponge. Bake in deep pans, in a moderately quick oven, about half an hour.
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