Soft Ginger Bread

Ingredients

• 
  Three cups flour
• Half cup milk
• Half cup lard
• Half cup New Orleans molasses
• One teaspoon baking soda
• Two eggs
• One teaspoon of ginger

Directions

1. Beat the yolk of the eggs and the lard together.
2. Add the milk, soda, molasses, ginger and flour.
3. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and add them carefully.
4. Bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes.

- Justin Rigby

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Mrs. Cocker
Louisiana Anthology
March 26, 2022