Hard Sugar Gingerbread

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter
• 1½ cups sugar
• ¾ cup milk
• 5 cups flour
• ¾ tablespoon baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• ¾ tablespoon ginger

Method

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Put some of mixture on an inverted dripping-pan and roll as thinly as possible to cover pan. Mark dough with a coarse grater. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Before removing from pan, cut in strips four and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide.