Gingerbread II

== Description ==
Sufficient for one small gingerbread.
== Ingredients ==
* ½ cupful sugar
* 1 egg
* ½ cupful molasses
* ½ cupful milk
* 1⅓ cupfuls flour
* ¼ cupful Crisco
* 1 teaspoonful salt
* 2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
* 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
* ½ teaspoonful powdered cloves
* ½ teaspoonful baking soda or 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
=== Sauce ===
* 1 teaspoonful Crisco
* 1 cupful (½ lb) maple sugar
* 1 tablespoonful flour
* 1 egg
* 1 cupful boiling water
== Directions ==
=== Cake ===
# Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices.
# Mix and turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes.
=== Sauce ===
# Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water.
# Rub together Crisco and flour.
# Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten egg.
# Then return to fire and stir briskly until thickened.
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