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- From: guarino@decwrl (Loretta Guarino Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Soft Gingerbread
- Date: 10 Jan 86 03:46:57 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE GINGERBREAD D "20 Dec 85" 1986
- .RZ "SOFT GINGER BREAD" "Traditional gingerbread, soft and chewy"
- I got this recipe from a college roommate, who got it from her mother.
- .IH "makes 1 pan gingerbread"
- .IG "1 cup" "butter" "220 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "white sugar" "190 g"
- .IG "2 tsp" "baking soda" "10 ml"
- (That's SODA, not POWDER)
- .IG "1 cup" "water" "250 ml"
- (boiling)
- .IG "1 cup" "blackstrap molasses" "250 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "ginger" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "cinnamon" "5 ml"
- .IG "2 3/4 cups" "white flour" "275 g"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- (large)
- .IG "1/4 cup" "powdered sugar" "30 g"
- .IG "1/4 cup" "diluted milk" "60 ml"
- (half milk and half water)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175
- .SK 2
- Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl big enough to hold the entire
- recipe.
- .SK 3
- Dissolve the baking soda in
- .AB "1 cup" "250 ml"
- boiling water. Add that mixture, and the
- molasses, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and flour to the butter-sugar cream.
- Mix only until moistened and evenly distributed.
- .SK 4
- Lightly beat the eggs, then add them to the bowl and beat the complete
- mixture well.
- .SK 5
- Grease a
- .AB "9\(mu13" "22\(33"
- shallow baking pan (or a
- .AB "10-inch" 25-cm"
- round casserole dish). Pour the mixture into the dish. Bake for about 45
- minutes, or until a poked toothpick comes out clean.
- .SK 6
- Mix the powdered sugar and the diluted milk together to form an icing, and
- brush on to the gingerbread.
- .NX
- Serve warm!
- You can make a refreshing variation on this
- basic recipe
- by replacing
- .AB "1 cup" "100 g"
- of the flour with whole-wheat flour, reducing the sugar to
- .AB "\(12 cup" "100 g"
- and increasing the molasses to
- .AB "1\(14 cups" "300 ml"
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 20 minutes plus baking and cooling time.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Loretta Guarino Reid, guarino@decwrl
- DEC Western Software Laboratory
- Palo Alto, California
-