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FareShare Gazette -- February 2009 Recipes

A home-style FareShare Gazette -- February 2009 Recipes made with Butter, Brown Sugar, Flour, Baking Soda, and Tartaric Acid. Scale it up or down for the number of people at the table.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 lb
• 1/2 lb
• 1 1/2 lb
• 1 tsp
• 1/4 tsp

Method (preview)

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   Recipe By: The New Cook Book; 1905

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   Serving Size: Preparation Time:0:00

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   Categories: Volume 12-02 Feb 2009

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   Cut up in a deep pan half a pound of the best fresh butter, with a half a pound of excellent brown sugar; stir it to cream with a spaddle (Spad"dle\, n.

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   Add a pint of West Indian molasses mixed with half a pint of warm milk; four tablespoonfuls of ginger; a heaped tablespoonful of mixed powdered cinnamon and powdered mace and nutmeg, and a glass of brandy.

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   Sift in a pound and a half of fine flour.

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   Beat six eggs till very light, then mix them alternately with the flour into the pan of butter, sugar, molasses, etc. At the last mix in the yellow rind (grated fine) of two large oranges and the juice.

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   Stir the whole very hard.

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   Melt in one cup a very small level teaspoonful of Magic Soda, and in another a small level salt-spoonful of tartaric acid.

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    First stir the Magic Soda into the mixture and then put in the tartaric acid.

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    Having buttered (with best butter) a large round or oblong pan, put in the mixture and bake it in a moderate oven till thoroughly done, keeping up a steady heat, but watching that it does not burn.

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    There is no gingerbread superior to this, if well made.

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    Instead of lemon or orange you may cut in half a pound of seedless raisins, dredge them well with flour and stir them gradually into the mixture.

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    MC format by Hallie. Untried.