This appears to have originated in Boston where it is held in high favor and it is a sort of social duty to know how to make it. No eggs needed.

1 cup butter - 7 oz.

2 cups light brown sugar - 13 oz. 1 cup milk - 1/2 pint.

4 cups flour -1 pound.

1 teaspoon ground ginger.

Warm the butter and sugar slightly and rub them together to a cream. Add the milk, ginger and flour. It makes a paste like very thick cream. Spread a thin coating of butter on the baking pans, let it get quite cold and set, then spread the paste on it no thicker than a visiting card, barely covering the pan from sight. Bake in a slack oven, and when done cut the sheets immediately into the shape and size of common cards. This is also known as euchre gingerbread. Is served in packs and eaten between games.

Do it up in paper packages to prevent breakage, with one sheet outside.

Cost of material 23c; weight 2 1/4 pounds; cakes innumerable.