Description[]
Sufficient for one small loaf of gingerbread.
Ingredients[]
- ½ cupful sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cupful molasses
- ½ cupful milk
- 1⅓ cupfuls flour
- ¼ cupful Crisco
- 1 teaspoonful salt
- 2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
- 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
- ½ teaspoonful powdered cloves
- ½ teaspoonful baking soda or 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Icing[]
- 1 teaspoonful Crisco
- 1 cupful (½ lb) maple sugar
- 1 tablespoonful flour
- 1 egg
- 1 cupful boiling water
Directions[]
Loaf[]
- 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.
Icing[]
- 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.