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Talladega Gingerbread Loaf Recipe from Purefoy Hotel Cook Book 1941

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Soft, moist, and intensely flavored gingerbread loaf with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon. Tastes just like the holidays!

Talladega Gingerbread

Recipe from the Purefoy Hotel Cook Book Talladega Alabama 1941
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Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • ⅜ cup shortening
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup molasses
  • 1 tsp soda
  • ½ cup sour milk
  • 1¾ cups flour
  • 2 tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ sp salt

Method
 

  1. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually.
  2. Add beaten egg mixed with molasses.
  3. Dissolve soda in the sour milk.
  4. Mix and sift flour, ginger, cinnamon, and salt together, and add alternately with the sour milk to the first mixture.
  5. Pour into greased loaf pan.
  6. Bake in a moderate oven (350 °F) for 20 to 30 minutes.
  7. This can be made at breakfast time and baked to serve hot for dinner or supper, by keeping it in the ice box. Serves 6-8.

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Blogger since 1999, hiker, camper, and lover of the outdoors. I research old cookbooks, newspapers, and journals recreating things I discover like old recipes. More information can be found over on my About Me page!

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