Gingerbread from Grandma Gladys and Variations Recipe
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Ingredients: 1/2 c. sugar
1 c. Crisco
1 c. molasses
1 egg
2 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. boiling water
1 c. raisins, nuts, optional
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Directions:Oven: 350º
In mixing bowl cream together sugar and Crisco. Add molasses; beat in egg. Blend all dry ingredients in separate container and add to batter, one third at a time, alternating with boiling water. Grandma poured hers into (9 X 13-inch) pan, and baked about 30 minutes. Top will be puffed, look dry, and toothpick in center of cake should come out clean. Delicious served hot with a drizzle of cream, squirt of whipped cream or ice cream, or split and buttered.
Variation: Mix 2 tsp. ginger, pinch of salt, 2 tsp. soda and 2 c. flour, set aside. Mix 1 c. sugar, 1 c. soured cream, 1 c. molasses and 2 eggs, beaten. Blend the two mixtures together and add 1/2 c. boiling water. Pour into greased and floured (9 X 13-inch) pan. Bake about 25 minutes. -Grace (Hawkins) Thralls Gibble
Variation: Cream 1/2 c. butter and 1/2 c. sugar. Add 1 c. molasses or sorghum. Sift together 2 1/2 c. flour, 1 tsp. each ginger, cinnamon and cloves and a dash of salt. Add to the sugar mixture. Dissolve 2 tsp. soda in 1 c. boiling water and stir in. Last, add 2 well beaten eggs. Bake as you would a sheet cake. (May substitute buttermilk or sour milk for the boiling water and use 3 C. flour; omit cinnamon and cloves.) -Granddaughters' Inglenook Cookbook |
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Notes: Memory: As kids, we would often ask Grandma for a story. One of our favorites was her description of “The Molasses Incident”
Our Grandfather, Paul Schnaithman, Sr. worked in the Oklahoma oil fields, often working the night shift. As a result, he often slept during daylight hours so our Grandma Schnaithman sometimes kept her toddlers, Paul Jr. and Myron, in the kitchen to play. On one cold winter day the boys were playing while Grandma was taking care of other household chores when Paul Jr. reportedly came running to find her saying, “Muddy, come quick, Bubby’s stuck!”
Grandma found the boys had overturned a gallon can of molasses under the sink and Myron was indeed stuck in the resulting sticky pool.
Bev recalls how it was sooo funny for us to think about our big daddy and always laughing uncle Myron to be so little and in such a predicament!
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