Grandmother Adas Gingerbread My Fathers Favorite Food

GRANDMOTHER ADA'S GINGERBREAD-MY FATHER'S FAVORITE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg and molasses, mixing well.
• Sift dry ingredients and add to the first mixture. Mix slightly.
• Add hot water and beat until smooth.
• Pour into lightly greased pan (I use butter). Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 - 40 minutes.
• This is best served still warm with butter. We usually sliced it open like a biscuit and put butter in the middle to melt. (If daddy had known how microwaves would have made it easy to heat up the gingerbread after it was cold, he probably would have owned a microwave before the 1990s, and he could have eaten the whole pan hot with butter melting on it just as if it were right from the oven.)

GRANDMOTHER'S GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Cream shortening & sugar together.
• Mix in the other ingredients.
• Pour into a well greased 9x13 pan.
• Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes, or until it starts to pull away from the edges and a toothpick comes out clean.

GINGERBREAD- GRANDMA'S

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare muffin tins (either butter them or use paper liners) for 24 muffins.
• Cream together shortening and sugar.
• Beat in egg, then molasses.
• The original recipe says to sift dry ingredients but today I simply stir together the flour, salt, soda, and spices.
• Mix together molasses mixture and dry ingredients.
• Gradually add hot water, mixing until smooth.
• Fill each muffin cup 2/3 cup full of batter.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes.
• Serve warm plain or with whipped cream.

GRANDMA BROWN'S GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Grease well either a 9 x 13 baking pan or two 9-inch round pans.
• Cut a piece of parchment or waxed paper to fit bottom of pan.
• Cream sugar and shortening together.
• Mix dry ingredients together.
• Add the molasses and boiling water to the sugar and shortening mixture, then slowly add dry ingredients to this mixture; mixing well between each addition.
• Beat eggs well.
• Add into mixture last.
• Pour into prepared pan (s).
• Bake at 350° or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (it should take 20 minutes, but can take as long as 35 minutes).
• Best when served warm with fresh whipped cream, but delicious any time.