Hard Sugar Gingerbread
¾ cup butter
1½ cups sugar
¾ cup milk
5 cups flour
¾ tablespoon baking powder
1½ teaspoons salt
¾ tablespoon ginger
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Put some of mixture on an inverted dripping-pan and roll as thinly as possible to cover pan. Mark dough with a coarse grater. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Before removing from pan, cut in strips four and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide.