38.—Scarborough Gingerbread (for wholesale purposes).
Take 180 lb. of treacle, 4 lbs. of lard, 4 lbs. 10 ozs. of carbonate of soda, 2 lbs. 11 ozs. of caraway seeds, 2 lbs. 11 ozs. of ginger, and ½ a gallon of water to dissolve the soda. Mix all together with a sufficient quantity of flour.
This should turn out about 390 lbs. of very good gingerbread. Wash with glue and water which has been boiled.
The taste for gingerbread is very widespread, large quantities of the best quality being exported to India. Holland is regarded as carrying off the palm for making good gingerbread. Shakespeare makes mention of it in Love’s Labour’s Lost, where he says, “An I had but one penny in the world thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.”