Gingerbread

This is a recipe from my Grandmother’s cookbook.

1 cup molasses
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup sour milk (to sour milk, add 1 tsp lemon juice, let set 20 minutes)
1 egg, well beaten
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt

1. Add butter to molasses and heat until butter melts
2. Add milk and egg.
3. Stir in flour which was sifted with the soda, salt and spices
4. Beat well
5. Spread mixture in a shallow, buttered pan (about 8×8-inches) or into 12 muffin tins, filling them 2/3’s full
6. In the pan, bake about 35 minutes at 325 deg. F. In muffin tins, bake about 15 minutes at 350 deg. F.

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