SOFT GINGERBREAD, TO BE EATEN HOT
1 cup sugar.
½ cup boiling water.
¼ cup melted butter.
1½ cups flour.
¾ teaspoonful soda.
1 teaspoonful ginger.
½ teaspoonful salt.
Put the soda in the sugar and beat it well in a good-sized bowl; then put in the melted butter, ginger, salt, and flour, and beat again; and add last the water, very hot indeed. Have a buttered tin ready, and put it at once in the oven; when half-baked, it is well to put a piece of paper over it, as all gingerbread burns easily.
You can add cloves and cinnamon to this recipe, and sometimes you can make it and serve it hot as a pudding, with a sauce of sugar and water, thickened and flavoured.