6. (Extemporaneous.)—a. From flour, 11⁄4 lb.; moist sugar and treacle, of each 1⁄2 lb.; butter, 21⁄2 oz.; baker’s salt (carbonate of ammonia), 1⁄4 oz., dissolved in cold water, q. s.; ginger, 3 dr.; nutmeg, 2 dr.; cassia, 1 dr.; cayenne pepper (best), 1⁄2 dr.
b. From flour, 6 lb.; powdered ginger, 21⁄2 oz.; caraway seeds, 1 oz. (and other spices to palate); candied lemon and orange peels, of each 2 oz.; moist sugar and melted butter, of each 1⁄2 lb.; treacle, 4 lb.; volatile salt, 2 oz.; water, q. s.; mix as above. May be baked at once.
c. From Jones’s patent flour, 2 lbs.; treacle, 1 lb.; moist sugar, 3⁄4 lb.; butter, 21⁄2 oz.; spice, q. s.; mix as quickly as possible, and bake it instantly. If the dough is expertly mixed up, the quality of the product is fully equal, if not superior, to that of any of the preceding formulæ.
Obs. Gingerbread is either rolled out into
thin sheets and cut into cakes or nuts (GINGERBREAD NUTS) with the top of a wine-glass or canister, or is formed into thick cakes, which are baked in ‘batches’ (ordinary GINGERBREAD). Both varieties require a pretty brisk oven; the thinner kinds (nuts, &c.), especially, must be baked as crisp as possible, without being burnt. The varieties called LEMON GINGERBREAD, CARAWAY G., &c., have a perceptible predominance of these flavouring ingredients. The addition of a little alum, dissolved in water, makes the bread both lighter and crisper, and causes it to ripen quicker, but at the same time lessens its wholesomeness.
GIN′GER CAN′DY. See Candying.
GIN′GER DROPS. See Drops (Confectionery).
GLAIRE. White of egg. See Albumen and Egg.
GLAN′DERS. Syn. Farcinoma, L. A contagious disease, generally confined to the horse, ass, and mule, but communicable to man, in whom it assumes a highly malignant and often fatal character. This disease appears under two forms—1. Simple acute glanders, marked by copious discharge of foul mucous matter from the nostrils and adjacent parts; and—2. Farcy, Farcin, or Farcy glanders, when it attacks the lymphatics of the skin, either generally, producing a distended appearance of the vessels, like moles or buttons (LEAD or BUTTON FARCY), or locally, when it takes the form of dropsical accumulations in the legs (WATER FARCY).
Treat. Mr Youatt considers it useless to attempt the cure of glandered horses; but that farcy in its earlier stages and milder forms may be often successfully treated. “All the mercurials have been used with benefit in farcy; but they must be discontinued as soon as the mouth is sufficiently affected, or sickness, loss of appetite, and like symptoms, are produced.” (Blaine.) Feeding the animal entirely on green food appears to be the best mode of treatment in both varieties. The buttons are generally removed with caustic or a red-hot iron.