Fairy Gingerbread

The cake and biscuit book · Douglas, Elizabeth · 1903

Source: The cake and biscuit book
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

1 cup butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
2 cups sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
1 cup sweet milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
4 cups flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
3/4 tea-spoon carbonate of soda ↝ Beverages, carbonated, club soda [Beverages]
2 tea-spoons ground ginger ↝ Spices, ginger, ground [Spices and Herbs]

Instructions (7)

Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually.
When the mixture is very light and creamy add the ginger.
Dissolve the soda in the milk and add it with the flour.
Grease a perfectly clean baking tin.
Spread the mixture as thinly as possible over it with a knife.
Bake in a moderate oven till brown.
Cut into squares while hot and slip off the tin.

Original Text

*Fairy Gingerbread

1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 4 cups flour ³⁄₄ tea-spoon carbonate of soda 2 tea-spoons ground ginger

Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually. When the mixture is very light and creamy add the ginger. Dissolve the soda in the milk and add it with the flour. Grease a perfectly clean baking tin. Spread the mixture as thinly as possible over it with a knife. Bake in a moderate oven till brown. Cut into squares while hot and slip off the tin.

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