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American Southern

Ginger Crackers

Name: Ginger Crackers
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups molasses; 1 cups sugar; 1 cups lard; 1 cups butter; 1 tsp soda; 8 each egg yolks; 1 tbsp ginger; one do. cinnamon; 1 each cloves; 1 each lemon; 1 each nutmeg; 1 each flour

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 18. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

2 cups molasses
1 cups sugar
1 cups lard
1 cups butter
1 tsp soda
8 each egg yolks
1 tbsp ginger
one do. cinnamon
1 each cloves
1 each lemon

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1 each nutmeg

1 each flour

Instructions

1
Melt the molasses, lard and butter together, until lukewarm
2
Beat the eggs and sugar together till light
3
Add the ingredients together, with flour enough to make a stiff dough
4
Knead well
5
Roll thin
6
Bake in a quick oven
7
Cut with cake cutters