Loaf of Gingerbread

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• One cup of brown sugar 
• Four eggs
• One cup of sour cream
• Cup of molasses
• Two teaspoons of soda
• Four cups of flour
• One teaspoon of salt
• One teaspoon of yellow giner

Directions 

1. Work butter until creamy and mix it with brown sugar
2. Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs and beat both until light
3. Stir the eggs with the butter and sugar, and add sour cream and molasses
4. Before putting the molasses and cream together, add soda disolved in warm water
5. Mix flour with salt and yellow ginger and add it to the batter
6. Do all the mixing as quickly and lightly as possible
7. Bake thirty minutes with moderate heat

Soure — Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Jazmine Wright

Louisiana Anthology

June 8, 2018