OK, I find I have more "standard" gingerbread recipes than I thought. It depends on what I have to work with. I suppose I never thought about it, however it seems my household has been paying a LOT more attention to the matter than I ever imagined! I scrounged up my notebooks to dig out my proportions and was told which recipe to give out by everybody, and none of them told me the same one! This is the simplest one:
Gingerbread
1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 2 heaped cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 heaping teaspoons ginger half a teaspoon salt half a cup melted butter or shortening 1 beaten eggMix the molasses with the milk. Sift the dry stuff together and add to the molasses. Beat in the egg and butter until it is all creamy. Pour into a greased 9x9 pan and bake at 350F for about a half hour or until it is done.
NightMist