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Gingerbread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
½ cup shortening or margarine
½ cup sugar
1 egg
½ cup molasses

1½ cups flour
¾ tsp. salt
¾ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. ginger
½ tsp. cinnamon

½ cup boiling water
Directions:
Directions:
Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg and molasses. Mix dry ingredients together; add alternately to creamed mixture with the water. Put in 8x8 pan, bake 25 - 30 minutes or until done. Toothpick put in center will come out clean.

**Double the recipe for a 9x13 pan. Will need to bake longer.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe came from the red checkered Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook that we always used here. It was a wedding shower gift from Mom (Grandma Eleanor Ehinger.)

 

 

 

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