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- Warm Soft Gingerbread
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- This is the best gingerbread you'll ever eat! Serve it hot with
- softly whipped cream flavored with chopped candied ginger, or top it
- with warm applesauce. This gingerbread keeps well for several days
- and can be reheated.
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- 1 cup butter,
- softened
- 1/2 cup packed
- brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup molasses
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup boiling water
- 3 cups all-purpose
- flour
- 1 Tb ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp each salt and
- ground cloves
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- In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg until
- light and fluffy. Stir in molasses. In small bowl, dissolve baking
- soda in boiling water; set aside. In medium bowl, sift or stir
- together flour, ginger, cinnamon, salt and cloves. Add flour mixture
- to butter mixture alternately with dissolved baking soda, stirring
- just until blended (do not overmix). Spoon mixture into greased 9-in.
- (2.5 L) square cake pan. Bake in 350 F (180 C) oven 45 to 55 minutes
- or until skewer inserted in centre comes out clean. Serve cut into
- squares.
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- Gingerbread,
- adapted from _The_Enchanted_Brocolli_Forest_. It produces a rich cake with
- the color and texture of fudge brownies.
-
- Liquid ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons grated gingerroot
- 5 tablespoons oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup firm yogurt or buttermilk
- 7/8 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons very dark molasses (Holiday brand)
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- Dry ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon dry ground mustard
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 cup oat bran
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
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- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix liquid and dry ingredients separately.
- Grease an 8" or 9" square pan. When oven reaches desired temp, pour the
- liquids into the dry ingredients, stir just enough to mix well (don't over
- do it), pour into the pan, and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. The middle will
- be soft and spongy and the canonical toothpick comes out clean.
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- Because it is sweetened with honey, the cake won't taste good warm. It
- will seem excessively over-spiced. At room temperature, the flavours
- balance perfectly.
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