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Christmas: Lafayette Gingerbread

Source of Recipe


From "Saveur Cooks Authentic American"



List of Ingredients



• ½ cup softened butter
  
• ½ cup dark brown sugar
  
• 1 cup unsulphered molasses
  
• 3 eggs
  
• 3 cups flour
  
• 2 Tbsp ground ginger
  
• 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
  
• 1 tsp ground mace
  
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  
• 1 tsp baking soda
  
• 1 cup buttermilk
  
• â…“ cup fresh orange juice
  
• 1 Tbsp grated orange zest
  
• 1 cup raisins
  
• Whipped heavy cream (optional)
  






Instructions



1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
   
   
2. Cream butter and brown sugar together in a large bowl. Stir in molasses, then beat in eggs, one at a time. Sift together flour, ginger, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, and baking soda into a medium bowl. Combine buttermilk, orange juice and zest, and raisins in another bowl. Beat one-third of flour mixture into butter mixture, then beat in one-third of buttermilk mixture. Repeat process twice, until all of the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture have been combined into butter mixture.
   
   
3. Pour batter into a greased, floured 9- x 13-inch baking pan. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve with whipped cream, if you like.
   
   Serves 8