Rind and juice of half a lemon.
Break up enough maple sugar to fill a half-pint cup. Put this into a saucepan with a gill of boiling water, and boil until reduced to half a pint; then cool. Beat the butter to a cream, and beat in the syrup and flavors. Dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of cold water, and stir it into the sour milk. Add this and the egg, well beaten, to the other ingredients. Now add the flour. Beat well for half a minute and pour into a well buttered pan. This quantity will make one small loaf or a thin sheet. If baked in a loaf, cook for fifty minutes; if in a sheet, about twenty-five.
Soft Molasses Gingerbread.
1 cupful of molasses.
1/2 cupful of sugar.
1/2 cupful of sour cream.
2 cupfuls of flour.
1/2 teaspoonful of salt.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful of ginger.