Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

Recipe Ingredients

2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon	5ml	Baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Ground ginger
1 teaspoon	5ml	Ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1		Unsalted butter - softened
3/4 cup	120g / 4.2oz	Packed light brown sugar
2 cups	396g / 13oz	Eggs (large)
1/2 cup	118ml	Molasses - (not blackstrap)
2/3 cup	157ml	Hot water

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.

Sift together flour, baking soda, spices, and salt into a bowl.

Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at moderately high speed until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in molasses. (Batter may look separated.) Mix in flour mixture at low speed, then water, mixing until batter is smooth, about 1 minute.

Pour batter into a buttered 9-inch square metal baking pan (2 inches deep). Bake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack, about 20 minutes, then serve warm.

Active time: 25 min Start to finish: 1 1/2 hr

Source:
Gourmet, April 2002, The Last Touch

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