Gingerbread

Ingredients 

• Butter
• Brown sugar
• Eggs
• Sour Cream
• Molasses
• Soda
• Warm Water
• Flour
• Salt
• Yellow Ginger

Directions

1. Mix one cupful of butter with one cupful of brown sugar
2. add four eggs
3. add one cupful of sour cream
4. and one cupful of molasses and mix
5. dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in warm water and mix in 
6. add four cupfuls of flour
7. a teaspoonful of salt
8. and two teaspoonfuls of yellow ginger and mix all together well
9. Bake

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Betsy Flowers

Louisiana Anthology

June 4, 2018