Soft Gingerbread, to Be Eaten Hot

Soft Gingerbread, to Be Eaten Hot

Ingredients:
1 cup of molasses.
1/2 cup boiling water.
1/4 cup melted butter.
1 1/2 cups flour.
3/4 teaspoonful soda.
1 teaspoonful ginger.
1/2 teaspoonful salt.

Directions:
Put the soda in the molasses and beat it well in a good−sized bowl, then put in the melted butter, ginger, salt,
and flour, and beat again, and add last the water, very hot indeed. Have a buttered tin ready, and put it at once
in the oven; when half−baked, it is well to put a piece of paper over it, as all gingerbread burns easily.
You can add cloves and cinnamon to this rule, and sometimes you can make it and serve it hot as a pudding,
with a sauce of sugar and water, thickened and flavored.
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