1 teaspoonful Crisco
1 cupful (1/2 lb.) maple sugar
1 tablespoonful flour
1 egg
1 cupful boiling water
_For cake_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten,
molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices. Mix and turn into
Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes.
_For sauce_. Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water. Rub together
Crisco and flour. Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten
egg. Then return to fire and stir briskly until thickened.
Sufficient for one small gingerbread.