Winter Ginger Cakes

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• Half of a pint of sweet cream
• One pound of butter
• Half of a pound of loaf sugar (Powdered)
• Two and a half ounces of ginger (Powdered)
• Two pounds of flour

Directions

1. Break the eggs in a bowl and beat them well with the sweet cream.
2. Put into a saucepan over the fire; stir till it gets warm.
3. Add the butter, loaf sugar, and ginger; stir carefully just to melt the butter.
4. Pour the contents on to the flour.
5. Form it all into a paste; roll it or break into pieces and bake it.

— Zach Schonfarber

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Zach Schonfarber
Louisiana Anthology
March 18, 2020