GINGERBREAD
1 cup of sugar.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful of ginger.
1 tablespoonful of melted butter.
½ cup of milk.
2 cups of flour.
Beat the eggs without separating, but very light; put the soda into the sugar, put them in the milk, with the ginger and butter, then one cup of flour—measure in a medium-sized cup and only level full—then the egg, and last the rest of the flour. Bake in a buttered biscuit-tin. For a change, sometimes add a teaspoonful of cloves and cinnamon, mixed, to this, and a cup of chopped raisins put in the flour, or a cup of chopped almonds.