Gingerbread IV

Description

Sufficient for one small loaf of gingerbread.

Ingredients

• ½ cupful sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ cupful molasses
• ½ cupful milk
• 1⅓ cupfuls flour
• ¼ cupful Crisco
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• ½ teaspoonful powdered cloves
• ½ teaspoonful baking soda or 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Icing

• 1 teaspoonful Crisco
• 1 cupful (½ lb) maple sugar
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 egg
• 1 cupful boiling water

Directions

Loaf

1. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices.
2. Mix and turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes.

Icing

1. Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water.
2. Rub together Crisco and flour.
3. Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten egg.
4. Then return to fire and stir briskly until thickened.