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Gossamer Gingerbread


Prep
Cook
Serves
4

Directions

  1. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then egg well beaten.

  2. Add milk, and dry ingredients mixed and sifted.

  3. Spread in a buttered dripping-pan as thinly as possible, using the back of mixing-spoon.

  4. Bake fifteen minutes.

  5. Sprinkle with sugar, and cut in small squares or diamonds before removing from pan.

Notes from the cook

From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Public domain. Digitized by Project Gutenberg (eBook #65061).

Added by Craig Zeldin · May 12, 2026