Bake in gem pans. Greatly improved by adding nuts and raisins.
Cream Gingerbread Cakes
| 2 eggs ½ cup molasses grated rind of ½ lemon 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups flour ½ cup sugar ¾ cup thick sour milk 1 saltspoon salt 1 tablespoon ginger 1½ teaspoons soda (level) |
Beat 2 eggs until light, add ½ cup of sugar, ½ cup molasses, ¾ cup thick sour cream, the grated rind of ½ lemon, 1 saltspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon ginger, and finally, add 2 cups of well sifted flour mixed with 1½ teaspoons soda (level).
Bake in gem pans. If desired add nuts and raisins which improves them very much.
Parliament Gingerbread
(With apologies to the English Suffragists)
| ½ lb. flour ½ lb. treacle 1 oz. butter ½ small spoon soda 1 dessert spoon ginger 1 dessert spoon mixed spices ½ cup sugar |
A bit of hot water in which soda is dissolved.
Put flour in a basin, and rub in butter, and dry ingredients; then, soda and water; pour in treacle, and knead to smooth paste. Roll quite thin and cut in oblongs. Bake about ¼ hour.