Unity Gingerbread. Maltese Cross
1 cup of butter.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup molasses—the very best.
1 cup “loppered” milk or buttermilk.
1 quart flour.
1 table-spoonful ginger.
1 teaspoonful mixed cloves and mace.
1 teaspoonful cinnamon.
1 cup raisins, seeded and cut in two.
1 half-pound eggs—beaten light.
1 heaping teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water.
Put butter, molasses and sugar together; warm slightly and whip with an egg-beater, until light and creamy. Add the eggs, milk, spices; flour, soda-water. Beat hard for a minute, then put in the fruit, well dredged with flour. Bake in two loaves, or cards. For the sake of “preserving the unities” “1 half pound of eggs” is introduced into this unique receipt. It is safe, however, if you do not care to take the trouble of weighing them, to allow four (or five, if they are small,) to the half-pound.