Ginger Bread

Ginger bread and cakes require a moderate oven; snaps a quick one. Snaps will not be crisp if made on a rainy day. If cookies or snaps become moist in keeping, put them in the oven and heat them for a few minutes. Always use New Orleans or Porto Rico molasses, and never syrups. Soda is used to act on the "spirit" of molasses.

Ginger Bread

One cupful each of molasses, brown sugar, and sweet milk, one small cup of butter, three eggs, three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar, one of soda, one teaspoonful each of ginger and cloves. Bake in two shallow pans.

Soft Ginger Bread

One cupful of brown sugar, one of molasses, three-fourths of a cupful of cold water, three cupfuls of flour, one-half cup of shortening, one egg, three teaspoonfuls of soda. Bake in a large dripping-pan. One teaspoonful of ginger.

Ginger Bread - Very Nice

One cupful each molasses,, brown sugar, and sour cream, three cupfuls of flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful each of soda, cinnamon, and ginger, one-half teaspoon of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Bake as the above recipe.

The Best Of Ginger Bread

One cupful of New Orleans molasses, three tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, nine tablespoonfuls of melted butter, or nice drippings, three teacupfuls of flour, one cupful of boiling water, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one tablespoonful each of cinnamon and ginger. Set the molasses and sugar on the stove, in a tin pan, and let it come to a boil; put in the melted butter, next the boiling water with the soda, next the spices and flour; beat all the lumps out, and put in the oven as soon as you can. The secret in making this ginger bread is not to get it too stiff. You must use judgment in regard to flour, as some flour thickens more than others.

Hard Ginger Bread

Five pints of flour, two coffeecupfuls of butter, one quart of molasses, half pint of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda; mix the milk, molasses, and flour together, melt and add the butter; roll out on the sheets. To make it glossy, rub over the top, just before putting into the oven, one well beaten egg.

Sponge Ginger Bread

One cupful of sour milk, one of molasses, one-half cup of butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of ginger, three cupfuls of flour; put butter, molasses and ginger together, make them quite warm, add the milk, flour, eggs and soda; bake as soon as possible.

Ginger Cookies

Two cupfuls of molasses, one cupful of butter or lard, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of soda, dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of boiling water, one egg; mix very soft.

Ginger Cookies - -Extra Fine

Five eggs, two cupfuls of New Orleans molasses, two cupfuls of brown sugar, two cupfuls of butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, dissolved in one tablespoonful of hot water, one tablespoonful of ginger. Beat the eggs very light, then stir in the rest of the ingredients, turn into the flour and mix hard enough to roll nicely. I usually use one cupful of butter and one of lard.