Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Loaf Gingerbread (No. 2.)

• 1 cup butter.
• 2 cups molasses.
• 1 tablespoonful ginger.
• 2 eggs, very well beaten.
• 1 teaspoonful saleratus.
• 1 cup milk, sweet or sour. If sour, heap your spoon with saleratus.
• Flour to the consistency of pound cake.