Gossamer Gingerbread
⅓ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
½ cup milk
1⅞ cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon yellow ginger
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then egg well beaten. Add milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Spread in a buttered dripping-pan as thinly as possible, using the back of mixing-spoon. Bake fifteen minutes. Sprinkle with sugar, and cut in small squares or diamonds before removing from pan.