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Laura Ingall’s Gingerbread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup brown sugar blended with 1/2 cup shortening
1 cup molasses mixed well with the above
2 teaspoons baking soda in 1 cup boiling water (Be sure cup is full of water after foam is run off into cake mixture.
Mix well
Directions:
Directions:
To three cups of flour add
1 teaspoon each of the following spices:
Ginger
Cinnamon
Allspice
Nutmeg
Cloves
Add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Sift all into cake mixture and mix well.
The mixture will be quite thin.
Bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes or until done. Moderate 325-350º.

 

 

 

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