Add the sugar, peel, lemon rind, and soda.
Mix with the egg, well beaten, and, if necessary, a little milk; the mixture must be very stiff.
Put it in little rough heaps on a greased baking-tin.
Bake in a quick oven for fifteen minutes.
Gingerbread Cakes.
- Ingredients—1 lb. of flour.
- 6 oz. of butter, lard, or dripping.
- 1 oz. of ground ginger.
- 4 oz. of moist sugar.
- ¾ lb. of treacle.
Method.—Put the sugar, treacle, and fat into a saucepan, and melt them.
Put the flour and ginger into a basin.
Mix with the other ingredients.
Roll out, and cut into small cakes.