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Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

Source of Recipe

Tarheel


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup molasses

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 cup hot water



Recipe


Cream butter, gradually add sugar, mixing well. Add egg and molasses, mixing well. Combine dry ingredients; add to the creamed mixture alternately with hot water, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, and beating well after each addition. Pour batter into a lightly greased and floured 9-inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inse4rted in the center comes out clean. Yield: 9 servings