Robert E. Lee's

Favorite

Ginger Bread

 

1 lb flour ½ lb butter ½ lb of sugar

½ pt. molassess good measure, 4 eggs

2 T.B. ginger 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup cream

 

Beat eggs separately—the yolks with the sugar—as for pound cake

cream the butter & flour together adding the eggs before the last of the flour to the batter. Make sure that the soda is well dessolved in the mollassess

Add that; then the ginger & lastly the cream. Bake in well greased pan or cups

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