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Soft Ginger Bread
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Servings: 1
Categories:
Cakes
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1
cup
Sugar 1/2
cup
Butter or other shortening 1
cup
Milk,
sour
2
teaspoons
Cinnamon 1/4
teaspoon
Nutmeg 1
teaspoon
Soda 1/4
cup
Water,
boiling
1
cup
Molasses 3
cups
Flour 2
teaspoons
Ginger 1
teaspoon
Cloves 2
each
Egg,
well beaten
*dissolved in:
Directions:
Cream the shortening and sugar, aadd the eggs and molasses, and mix well.
Sift the flour and spices, and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture. Stir in the dissolved soda. Pour into well-greased cake pan and bake at 350-F 30 minutes. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
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