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Soft Molasses Gingerbread
A classic 1910 sweet built around molasses, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.
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What you’ll need
Ingredients
- 1 cup molasses
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1¾ teaspoons soda
- ½ cup sour milk
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons ginger
- ½ teaspoon salt
Make it happen
Directions
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Put butter and molasses in saucepan and cook until boiling-point is reached. Remove from fire, add soda, and beat vigorously. Then add milk, egg well beaten, and remaining ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake fifteen minutes in 483 buttered small tin pans, having pans two-thirds filled with mixture.
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