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Gingerbread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1/2 cup Sugar
1--Egg
1--cup molasses
1 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1--tsp. ginger
1/2 cup of butter and lard or Crisco mixed
2 1/2 cups of Flour
1--tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1--cup of hot water
Directions:
Directions:
Cream shortening and sugar. Add beaten Egg, molasses, and dry ingredients, sifted together. Add hot water last. Beat until smooth. Batter will be thin, but will bake into a fine cake. Bake in greased shallow pan for 35 minutes, in moderate oven.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
15
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is Faye Rauer Bailey's recipe. It was made recently, and is delicious. I got it from a cook book, compiled in 1952, by the Sunshine Workers' Club, new Boston, Missouri. Faye was on the Book Committee. Her daughter-in-Law, Bebe Masur, copied the book and sent it to me.

 

 

 

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