*Fairy Gingerbread
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup sweet milk
4 cups flour
³⁄₄ tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 tea-spoons ground ginger
Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually. When the mixture is very light and creamy add the ginger. Dissolve the soda in the milk and add it with the flour. Grease a perfectly clean baking tin. Spread the mixture as thinly as possible over it with a knife. Bake in a moderate oven till brown. Cut into squares while hot and slip off the tin.