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Ginger Creames




Source of Recipe


My Aunt, Marian Burke in about 1967






Recipe Introduction


I asked my aunt for this recipe when I was away at college. It was one of her "company" recipes. I still have the small card she wrote it out on which is now very brown. Under the title she wrote "(like we had on July 4th)". She took a bunch of these bars to a 4th of July Celebration that my family attended in Pierre, SD in about 1965. I remember the day for her bars and also the picture of my family around the picnic table in the Currans back yard. My mother used it for our Christmas Card picture, much to my mortification. My hair was in rollers and a very attractive bandanna topped it off. I think all of us were there: my mom, Myrtle, my Dad, Paul, sisters - Phyllis, Pat, Bev, and my brother,Wayne. We all drove over from Miller about 72 miles to the east. We were visiting Marian and my Dad's first cousin, Gladys Curran and her family (her husband, Jim, and her daughters, Rosemary and Marian). This recipe is as she wrote it out originally.





List of Ingredients



• 2 cups brown sugar
  
• 1 cup butter (margarine) (2 sticks)
  
• 3 cups flour
  
• salt (about 1/2 tsp)
  
• vanilla, nuts, ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg.
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 cup cold coffee
  
• 1 cup boiled drained raisons
  
• 1 tsp soda
  
• Water drained from raisons may be used as part of the coffee.
  






Instructions



1. Mix all ingredients.
   
2. Spread thin in large pan or pans and bake at 350 degrees.
   
3. Careful not to over-bake.
   
4. Frost with thin powdered sugar frosting while hot.
   
5. This is a large recipe. You will probably want only half of it and it will need more than one pan if they are small.
   
6. I use one very large pan and my rather large covered pan for the whole recipe.
   






Final Comments


Marian was a career woman who never married. She had several special recipes that she was proud of and I liked all of them. The reason for the note about the size of the pans is because I was at college and she had made lots of these bars for the picnic. She probably didn't want me to pig out on them! She doesn't give any measurements for the spices, vanilla and nuts. In our family, we tend to use more of these than most recipes call for. The "raisons" keep this bar moist for a long time. I would use probably 1 or 2 t. vanilla, 2 t. cinnamon, 1 t. nutmeg, 1 t. of ginger. 1 c. walnuts. (I would probably follow her advice and cut the recipe into half or thirds.) I still have her covered 9" X 13" aluminum pan.