Folio 1, Page 19, Recto

Folio 1, Page 19, Recto

Recipe for Ginger Cakes

To make Ginger Cake
Beat two pounds of fine loaf sugar put
one pound in a Tossing pan with as
much water as will dissolve it with
one ounce of Race Ginger grated fine
stir them well together over a very
slow fire till the sugar begins to boil
then stir in the other pound and keep
stirring it until it grows thick then take
it out of the fire then drop them in Cakes
upon Earthen Dishes, set them in a
warm place to dry and they will look
white and be very hard and brittle

Unknown

Charlotte Starkie

Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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To make Ginger CakeBeat two pounds of fine loaf sugar put one pound in a Tossing pan with as much water as will dissolve it with one ounce of Race Ginger grated fine stir them well together over a very slow fire till the sugar begins to boil then stir in the other pound and keep stirring it until it grows thick then take it out of the fire then drop them in Cakes upon Earthen Dishes set them in a warm place to dry and they will look white and be very hard and brittle