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Gingerbread, Thick

Name: Gingerbread, Thick
Ingredients: 1 lb. of treacle; 1/4 lb. of butter; 1/4 lb. of coarse brown sugar; 1-1/2 lb. of flour; 1 oz. of ginger; 1/2 oz. of ground allspice; 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; 1/4 pint of warm milk; 3 eggs

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Gingerbread, Muster

Tasty sweet bread

Gingerbread, White

Time: 3/4 to 1 hour

Ingredients

1 lb. of treacle
1/4 lb. of butter
1/4 lb. of coarse brown sugar
1-1/2 lb. of flour
1 oz. of ginger
1/2 oz. of ground allspice
1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
1/4 pint of warm milk
3 eggs

Directions

Put the flour into a basin, with the sugar, ginger, and allspice; Mix these together

Warm the butter, and add it, with the treacle, to the other ingredients. Stir well

Make the milk just warm, dissolve the carbonate of soda in it

Mix the whole into a nice smooth dough with the eggs, which should be previously well whisked

Pour the mixture into a buttered tin, and bake it from 3/4 to 1 hour, or longer, should the gingerbread be very thick

Just before it is done, brush the top over with the yolk of an egg beaten up with a little milk, and put it back in the oven to finish baking

Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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