Molasses Gingerbread

Ingredients

• Unrefined black New Orleans molasses
• Sugar (must be the coarse, dark, unrefined brown sugar)
• One cupful of butter (melted)
• One cupful of molasses
• One cupful of brown sugar
• Two eggs well beaten
• Two cupfuls of flour
• One tablespoonful of ginger
• One teaspoonful cinnamon
• One-half teaspoonful baking soda

Directions

1. Beat this mixture well and drop it in spoonfuls on a baking sheet or roasting pan
2. Spread it with a wooden spoon very thin and evenly over the pan
3. Bake ten or twelve minutes in a moderate oven
4. Let it cool a little after it is drawn from the oven
5. Cut it up into any desired shapes

— Mrs. Brigham

Source — Cooking in Old Créole Days

Prepared by Brody C. Pinion

Louisiana Anthology

July 15, 2017