Gingerbread. Recipe No. 5. (Spiced.)

Take: Sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ½ lb.; eggs, 5; milk, 3 tablespoonfuls; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; ground ginger, 1 tablespoonful; flour, 1 lb.; cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, teaspoonful each.

Stir one pound of sugar and half a pound of butter to a cream; add five eggs beaten to a froth, three tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water, a heaping tablespoonful of ground ginger, and one teaspoonful each of cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon; mix together well and add one pound of flour. (This amount will make two good-sized loaves.)

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