Recipes

Laura Ingalls Wilder's gingerbread, a recipe from the Little House book series, was always served on the writer's birthday, February 7.

Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 cup molasses

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 Tablespoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspons baking soda

1 cup boiling water

2 eggs

Directions:

Mix brown sugar, butter and molasses until well combined.

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves and salt. Add the sugar/moasses mixture.

While holding measureing cup of boiling water over bowl of batter, add 2 teaspoons baking soda in 1 cup boiling water (Be sure the cup is full of water after the foam has run off into the cake mixture.) Add water to cake.

Mix well and add 2 well-beaten eggs. The mixture will be thin.

Pour batter into bundt pan. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 25-30 minutes. Watch time and remove cake when toothpick inserted comes out clean.

*Raisins may be added to the batter and baked in the gingerbread. Chocolate frosting or a dusting of powdered sugar is a nice topping.