Soft Gingerbread Recipe

MISS BEEMER.



Two cups molasses, one half cup of shortening (lard), three fourths cup

boiling water, one tablespoon each of ginger, cinnamon and saleratus,

(soda) two tablespoonfuls vinegar, three and one half cups of flour, one

teaspoon salt (even), melt the molasses and shortening on the stove

slowly, mix the saleratus with the boiling water and add it to the

above, then add the vinegar; mix the ginger, cinnamon and salt with the

flour and stir in slowly. Bake in a long flat tin in a moderate oven

about half an hour.

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