Gingerbread.
- Ingredients—2 lb. of flour.
- 2 lb. of treacle.
- ½ lb. moist sugar.
- 3 eggs.
- ½ oz. of carbonate of soda.
- 8 oz. of butter.
- 2 oz. of ginger.
- ½ a cup of water.
- 2 oz. of candied peel.
Method.—Put the flour, sugar, ginger, candied peel, and carbonate of soda into a basin.
Warm the treacle, water, and butter in a saucepan.
Mix with the dry ingredients and add the eggs, well beaten.
Partly fill a well-greased Yorkshire-pudding tin.
Smooth over with a knife dipped in hot water, and score with a knife.
Bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half.