171. _Hard Molasses Gingerbread._

To a pint of molasses put half a tea-cup of melted butter, a

table-spoonful of ginger, and a quart of flour. Dissolve a tea-spoonful

of saleratus in half a pint of water, and stir it in, together with

flour sufficient to enable you to roll it out. Bake it in a moderately

warm oven.

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