OT Gingerbread

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 egg

Mix 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

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I have everything except the sour milk. Often my recipe will add in some raisins, or cinnamon ;)

G> OK, I find I have more "standard" gingerbread recipes than I thought.

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Roberta

Honey is not a drop in replacement for molasses. Honey is a 1:1 replacement for sugar Molasses is a 2:1 replacement.

Nor does honey react with soda like molasses.

So when you want to use one for the other you have adjust accordingly, and don't forget to adjust the amount of liquid up or down.

Here you would need half as much honey as molasses or it will be overly sweet. I would also go with sweet milk instead of sour, and powder instead of soda. I would try 1 1/4 cups of milk and a teaspoon of baking powder to start off with, and adjust according to how it comes out. I'd toss in a smidge of cinnamon as well, a half teaspoon to a teaspoon. Just because it brings out the honey so well. Some people prefer cloves with honey. You can see that I used both in the honey gingerbread cookie recipe I posted.

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NightMist

Thanks! It's really hard to find molasses where I live. Maybe not impossible, who knows? But we have loads of honey. I'm thinking the very dark forest honey would be interesting in gingerbread.

I hardly ever bother mak>Honey is not a drop in replacement for molasses.

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Roberta

I hope it will work with black strap molasses, it's the only type I buy! I know what I'll be making this afternoon. First the regular and then the apple type! Thanks for posting these recipes ;-) Bonnie NJ

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Bonnie NJ

Howdy!

I was just thinking, Roberta, "why do you need gingerbread when you live in The Land of Lebkuchen?!?!"

I make good gingerbread, from an old Crisco recipe book (tho' I don't use Crisco ). Super gingerbread cookies, too.

But I'd rather have Lebkuchen.

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And this is NOT off topic: every quilter needs a favorite snack or 4; Lebkuchen's on my list!

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R/Sandy - smacking lips ;-P

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Sandy E

Dang, I wish I was quilting with you so I could eat some of the good stuff! Yumm! While quilting with the local gals today I had some good eats. Golly quilters are good cooks. While at thanksgiving celebration the ds gal's family was talking about lefse. Anyone have any tips on making those? They sure sound good. Taria

Howdy!

I was just thinking, Roberta, "why do you need gingerbread when you live in The Land of Lebkuchen?!?!"

I make good gingerbread, from an old Crisco recipe book (tho' I don't use Crisco ). Super gingerbread cookies, too.

But I'd rather have Lebkuchen.

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And this is NOT off topic: every quilter needs a favorite snack or 4; Lebkuchen's on my list!

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R/Sandy - smacking lips ;-P

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Taria

Well, they are not interchangeable. And the one with apples sounds just delicious!

DH found a local supermarket sell>Howdy!

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Roberta

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