We'll bring your friends and ours to this large dinner. It works the better eaten before witnesses.

—Cartwright.

Soft Gingerbread

½ cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup hot water
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda
½ cup sugar
1 teacup molasses
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
2½ cups flour

Dissolve soda in couple teaspoonfuls hot water.

Gingerbread

1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
2½ cups flour
¾ cups lard and butter
2 eggs
1 dessert spoon soda dissolved in cup cold water
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Bake in slow oven and leave in pan until cold.

Cream Gingerbread

2 eggs, beaten, add
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup sour milk
1 tablespoon ginger
¾ cup molasses
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1½ level teaspoon soda well sifted
2 level cups flour