Hot Water Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses
• ½ cup boiling water
• 2¼ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1½ teaspoons ginger
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons melted butter

Method

Add water to molasses. Mix and sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures, add butter, and beat vigorously. Pour into a buttered shallow pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Chicken fat dried out and clarified furnishes an excellent shortening, and may be used in place of butter.