The Boston cooking-school cook book

2 cups flour 2 teaspoons ginger ½ teaspoon salt Put butter and molasses in saucepan and cook until boiling-point is reached. Remove from fire, add soda, and beat vigorously. Then add milk, egg well beaten, and remaining ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake fifteen minutes in buttered small tin pans, having pans two-thirds filled with mixture. Cambridge Gingerbread ⅓ cup butter ⅔ cup boiling water 1 cup molasses 1 egg 2¾ cups flour 1½ teaspoons soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger ¼ teaspoon clove Melt butter in water, add molasses, egg well beaten, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake in a buttered shallow pan. Soft Sugar Gingerbread 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1¾ cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoons ginger ⅔ cup thin cream Beat eggs until light, and add sugar gradually. Mix and sift dry ingredients, and add alternately with cream to first mixture. Turn into a buttered cake pan, and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Gossamer Gingerbread ⅓ cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg ½ cup milk 1⅞ cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon yellow ginger Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then egg well beaten. Add milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Spread in a buttered dripping-pan as thinly as possible, using the back of mixing-spoon. Bake fifteen minutes. Sprinkle with sugar, and cut in small squares or diamonds before removing from pan. Fairy Gingerbread ½ cup butter 1 cup light brown sugar ½ cup milk 1⅞ cups bread flour 2 teaspoons ginger Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and milk very slowly. Mix and sift flour and ginger, and combine mixtures. Spread very thinly with a broad, long-bladed knife on a buttered, inverted dripping-pan. Bake in a moderate oven. Cut in squares before removing from pan. Watch carefully and turn pan frequently during baking, that all may be evenly cooked. If mixture around edge of pan is cooked before that in the centre, pan should be removed from oven, cooked part cut off, and remainder returned to oven to finish cooking.