Hot Water Gingerbread

Categories: Gingerbread

Serves: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

1/2 c Butter
2/3 c Boiling water
1 c Molasses
2 1/4 c Flour
1 1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 ts Ginger, or
1 ts Ginger
1 ts Cinnamon, and
1/4 ts Cloves

Instructions:
Melt butter in hot water, add molasses, and dry ingredients mixed and
sifted. Beat vigorously. Bake in buttered shallow pan 35 to 40 minutes; in
greased muffin pans or bread stick pans 20 to 35 minutes in a moderate oven
(350 F.).

NOTES : Cambridge Gingerbread. Add 1 egg, well beaten, to liquids
before incorporating flour.

Recipe by: 1937 Boston Cooking School Cookbook

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #479 by Trinette Kaufman
on Feb 09, 1997.

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