Ingredients: Three cupfuls of bread-dough, one cupful of butter, three
scant cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of raisins or English currants, three
eggs, a nutmeg grated, one tea-spoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar,
a wine-glassful of brandy.
GINGERBREAD (_Mrs. Lansing_), No. 1.
Ingredients: Two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of butter, one cupful
of sugar, one cupful of milk (sour or sweet), five eggs, five cupfuls of
sifted flour, two table-spoonfuls of ginger, half a tea-spoonful of
cloves, one tea-spoonful of soda.
GINGERBREAD (No. 2).
Ingredients: One cupful (half a pint) of molasses, one cupful (half a
pint) of boiling water, butter the size of an egg, one tea-spoonful each
of ground cloves, ground cinnamon, ginger, and soda, half a pound of
flour (light weight).
First, put butter (partly melted) into the molasses, then spices.
Dissolve the soda in the boiling water; stir it into the molasses, etc.;
then the flour. Cream of tartar should not be used with molasses.