Gingerbread and lemon sauce

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Butter
2 cups (scant) sugar
4 tablespoons Molasses
2 teaspoons Each ginger & cinnamon
1 teaspoon Each ground cloves & nutmeg
1 pinch Salt
2 cups Buttermilk
2 teaspoons Soda
2 Eggs; well beaten
3 cups Flour; sifted
1 cup Sugar
½ cup Butter
1 Lemon; juice of
1 Egg (up to)
1 cup Boiling water

Directions

GINGERBREAD: Melt 1 cup butter, then add 2 cups sugar, molasses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt; mix well. Dissolve soda in the buttermilk, then add to other mixture. Stir well. Add 2 eggs, stir in flour. Grease and flour 9x12-inch pan. Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes. Serve hot or cold with whipped cream or lemon sauce. LEMON SAUCE: Put 1 cup sugar, ½ cup butter, lemon juice, 1 egg and ½ to 1 cup boiling water in top of double boiler and stir until thick. Serve hot or cold over gingerbread.

MRS DAVID HENDERSON (GRACE)

MARVELL, AR

From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .

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