¹⁄₃ cup butter
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
1 egg
2¹⁄₂ cups flour
3¹⁄₂ teaspoons baking powder
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ginger
1 cup milk
Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, and the well-beaten egg. Mix
and sift the dry ingredients and add a little of the mixture alternately
with part of the milk. When all is in, put the dough into a buttered
mould, cover it, and boil it one-half hour in a large cooker-pail of
water, then put it into a cooker for five hours. Serve it with Vanilla
Sauce or Nutmeg Sauce.
Serves six or eight persons.