Sponge Gingerbread and Chocolate.
5 cups of flour; 1 heaping tablespoonful of butter; 1 cup of molasses; 1 cup of sugar; 1 cup of sour milk; 2 tablespoonfuls of saleratus, dissolved in hot water; 2 teaspoonfuls of ginger; 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Mix molasses, sugar, butter, and spice together. Warm slightly, and beat five minutes. Add milk, saleratus, lastly the flour. Beat hard five minutes, and bake in a broad, shallow pan; or in small tins. Eat warm with a cup of good chocolate, made by stirring six tablespoonfuls of chocolate, wet with cold water, into a pint of boiling water, boiling twenty minutes, adding the milk, and cooking ten minutes longer, stirring often.
First Week. Saturday.
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Family Soup.
Killarney Stew. Baked Tomatoes.
Fried Sweet Potatoes. Stewed Carrots.
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Boiled Pudding.
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