Antique Recipe Ormskirk Gingerbread |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 24 |
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The following recipe was transcribed ver batim from Peterson's Magazine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February, 1859 Ingredients:
ormskirk gingerbread |
two pounds flour |
one pound butter |
one-half pound sifted oatmeal |
three-quarters of a pound of moist sugar, one ounce ginger |
the same of citrus and candied orange peel |
all mixed together; then add one pound of treacle*. |
Directions:
1. The whole should be mixed the day before it is intended to be baked.
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3. In a regular gingerbread pan floured and larded this took 35 minutes in a 350 degree oven. It made 2 pans.
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5. Special for Cabincrazy:*molasses
6. I had to look it up too!
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