Old fashioned gingerbread

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Margerine, softened
½ cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 cup Molasses
2½ cup Flour
1½ teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Cloves
1 teaspoon Ginger
1 cup Hot water

Directions

Cream butter and sugar, mixing well. Add egg and molasses; mix well.

Combine dry ingredients; add to the creamed mixture alternately with hot water, beginning and ending with flour mixture, and beating well after each addition.

Pour batter into a greased/floured 9 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes (test after about 25), or until cake tests done. Frost, if desired, or top with whipped cream or cool whip.

Note: Granny always used to coat the top of her gingerbread with home-made apple butter that she made in the fall in a huge iron kettle over a wood fire. It took all day and a lot of work, but she made the best applebutter in the world.

Here in Winchester, Va., I can get that same kind of applebutter just about anywhere. (We're the "Apple Capital of the World.") By the way...try a peanut butter and apple butter sandwich instead of the usual pbj....it's wonderful!

Posted to EAT-L Digest 02 Feb 97 by "Sharon H. Frye" <shfrye@...> on Feb 3, 1997.

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