Hot Water Gingerbread

I wanted to include this recipe for gingerbread also. It contains the same ingredients as 60 year old gingerbread, but it is a double recipe. This recipe I believe is basically the same, so I don't know why it is named different except that it was from another source, but [probably the same era. This recipe was found in Helon's old recipe box. I don't know if she used this one or not, but it seems to be the same just a doubled recipe. Here goes another staple recipe of Southern Cooking.

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups flour
1tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream sugar and shortening: add molasses and egg Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture. Add hot water and beat by hand until smooth. Bake in 13 x9 inch pan at 325 until done(here we go again)

Apparently the cooks of days gone by just eyeballed there baking, but the reason was that ovens were so different and not as exact as ours are today. Hope one of these works for you. I haven't used this one, but I think it is just a larger recipe from the 60 year old gingerbread.