Grandmother Adas Gingerbread My Fathers Favorite Recipes

FAVORITE OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg, and mix in the molasses.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the hot water. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan before serving.

GRANDMOTHER'S GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Cream shortening & sugar together.
• Mix in the other ingredients.
• Pour into a well greased 9x13 pan.
• Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes, or until it starts to pull away from the edges and a toothpick comes out clean.

GRANDMA'S GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• In medium bowl, blend butter with sugar, add molasses and eggs. Beat well. Sift dry ingredients, add alternately with water to molasses mixture. Bake in greased 9 inch square pan about 50 minutes.

GRANDMOTHER ADA'S GINGERBREAD-MY FATHER'S FAVORITE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg and molasses, mixing well.
• Sift dry ingredients and add to the first mixture. Mix slightly.
• Add hot water and beat until smooth.
• Pour into lightly greased pan (I use butter). Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 - 40 minutes.
• This is best served still warm with butter. We usually sliced it open like a biscuit and put butter in the middle to melt. (If daddy had known how microwaves would have made it easy to heat up the gingerbread after it was cold, he probably would have owned a microwave before the 1990s, and he could have eaten the whole pan hot with butter melting on it just as if it were right from the oven.)