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Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

Photo Credit
Marie C Fields/Shutterstock
Yield
6 to 8 servings
Category
Cakes and Frostings
Course
Desserts
Credit
Fay Linden First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist,
Sources
Yankee Magazine Church Suppers and Potluck Dinners Cookbook
November 12, 2021
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This is an authentic, hundred-year-old recipe that’s wonderful served warm with a scoop of French vanilla ice cream or sprinkled with confectioners’ sugar.

Ingredients
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine, at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1-1/2 cups all-purpose white flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup molasses
Confectioners' sugar
Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat for 1 minute. Combine the buttermilk and soda and set aside. In a separate bowl, sift the flour with the spices. Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture, blending well but not beating. Stir in the buttermilk, then the molasses. Pour into the pan.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a tester inserted near the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar, if desired.

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Comments

Keri (not verified)

1 year 5 months ago

I make this gingerbread every year for Christmas. It's a staple everyone loves! This year I did a test cake with a few changes. In place of butter I used applesauce, in place of sugar I used a zero calorie brown sugar, in place of all-purpose white flour I used white wheat flour and I used 1 Tbs of ginger. Everyone who tried it agreed it was just as good. It did lack some richness without the butter but the applesauce actually made it more moist and most liked the added ginger. This recipe is a keeper!!!!

wonderful; I could agree with the extra Ginger; Happy Holidays!

Anne (not verified)

1 year 5 months ago

Old-Fashioned Gingerbread is excellent with a dollop of whipped cream~

Priscilla Cobb (not verified)

4 years 5 months ago

I made this with gluten free flour and it still came out wonderful!!!

Thank’s for your comment. I wanted to try it with gluten free flower. I will for sure now. Gingerbread is my favorite!