Gingerbread - American Recipe

Gingerbread

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●●○○○

🍳 Equipment: Small saucepan, Mixing-bowl, Small bowl, Mixing-spoon, Dover beater, Sifter, Bread or cake pan

Classic American gingerbread — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon clove
• 1 teaspoon soda
• ½ cup strong hot coffee
• 2 cups flour

Method

1. Melt — the butter in a small saucepan, and pour it into a mixing-bowl.
2. Add — the sugar and molasses, and stir.
3. Beat — the egg in a small bowl, and add it to the mixture in the large bowl.
4. Stir — in the spices and beat well.
5. Mix — the soda into the hot coffee, stir well, and pour this into the mixture in the large bowl.
6. Sift — the flour into the mixture, and stir and beat until the batter is light and smooth.
7. Pour — the batter into a buttered bread-pan, or two buttered cake-pans, and bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes.

Tags: butter, egg, flour, sugar, coffee · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Gingerbread may be covered with Boiled Frosting (page 113), if desired.

Cross-References

• See (page 113)