Gingerbread. Recipe No. 6. (Sponge.)

Take: Molasses, 1 cupful; butter, ½ cupful; ginger, 1 tablespoonful; sour milk, 1 cupful; soda 1½ teaspoonfuls; flour.

Mix a cupful of molasses, half a cupful of butter, and one tablespoonful of ginger, and set it on the fire till well warmed; then add one cupful of sour milk, one teaspoonful and a half of soda and enough flour to make a stiff sponge. Bake at once in a rather quick oven.

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