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Soft Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup New Orleans molasses
• 1 cup good sweet milk
• 5 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder, not heaped
• 2 tablespoonfuls ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoonful ground ginger

Instructions

Bake in small dripping pans not too full, as they will rise.

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Notes

From Vol. 56, No. 1, January 5, 1884.

Source

The Prairie Farmer (1884).