Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1912 — Chocolate Gingerbread. [ARTICLE]

Chocolate Gingerbread.

One cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon salt; dissolve one teaspoon soda to a teaspoon cold water; add this and two tablespoons melted butter to the mixture; stir in two cups sifted flour; finally add two squares of chocolate and one tablespoon butter melted together; bake in three deep pie plates in moderate oven for about 20 minutes. Vanilla Icing. Break the white of one egg into a bowl and gradually beat into it one cupful of confectioners’ sugar. Beat for three minutes; add one-half teaspoon vanilla extract and when cake is done and still warm spread between and on top. This cake Is best when eaten fresh.