To Make Ginger Bread Mrs Lister

Title: To Make Ginger Bread Mrs Lister
Creator: Mrs. Lister
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, sugar, ginger, butter, and flour.
Transcript: Take 2 pd of Treackle half a pd of suger 2 ounce of Ginger finely beaten half a pd of buter finely melted mix youre Ginger [in] Suger in the floore then put the Treackle & buter in the floore & worke it up very light buter yr papers & bake them in a quick over not leting them stand above half an houre
Subject: See all items with this value treacle; See all items with this value ginger; See all items with this value butter; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value flour; See all items with this value baking; See all items with this value gingerbread
Contributor: Oberle, George; Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.