Part 20

Make up at night and in morning drop from spoon into pan. Bake in a quick oven.

We'll bring your friends and ours to this large dinner. It works the better eaten before witnesses. --Cartwright.

Soft Gingerbread

1/2 cup butter 2 eggs 1 cup hot water 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 cup sugar 1 teacup molasses 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 2 1/2 cups flour

Dissolve soda in couple teaspoonfuls hot water.

Gingerbread

1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses 2 1/2 cups flour 3/4 cups lard and butter 2 eggs 1 dessert spoon soda dissolved in cup cold water 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Bake in slow oven and leave in pan until cold.

Cream Gingerbread

2 eggs, beaten, add 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup sour milk 1 tablespoon ginger 3/4 cup molasses 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 1/2 level teaspoon soda well sifted 2 level cups flour

Bake in gem pans. Greatly improved by adding nuts and raisins.

Cream Gingerbread Cakes

2 eggs 1/2 cup molasses grated rind of 1/2 lemon 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 3/4 cup thick sour milk 1 saltspoon salt 1 tablespoon ginger 1 1/2 teaspoons soda (level)

Beat 2 eggs until light, add 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 3/4 cup thick sour cream, the grated rind of 1/2 lemon, 1 saltspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon ginger, and finally, add 2 cups of well sifted flour mixed with 1 1/2 teaspoons soda (level).

Bake in gem pans. If desired add nuts and raisins which improves them very much.

Parliament Gingerbread

(With apologies to the English Suffragists)

1/2 lb. flour 1/2 lb. treacle 1 oz. butter 1/2 small spoon soda 1 dessert spoon ginger 1 dessert spoon mixed spices 1/2 cup sugar

A bit of hot water in which soda is dissolved.

Put flour in a basin, and rub in butter, and dry ingredients; then, soda and water; pour in treacle, and knead to smooth paste. Roll quite thin and cut in oblongs. Bake about 1/4 hour.

Soft Gingerbread

1 cup sour milk 1/2 cup butter 2 eggs 2 pints flour 1 cup molasses 1/2 cup sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons soda 2 teaspoons ginger

Dr. Van Valja's Griddle Cakes

1 cup boiled rice 1 level tablespoon flour yolks of three eggs pinch salt

Beat the eggs to a froth, put in the rice and flour, bake on rather hot griddle greased with butter--eat with sugar and cinnamon.

Very good for a dyspeptic.

Sally Lunn

1/4 cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder