Plebeian Ginger Bread

Ingredients

• 3 large spoonsful pounded ginger
• 3 quarts flour
• 3 tea-spoonsful pearl-ash
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1 quart molasses

Instructions

1. Mix three large spoonsful of pounded ginger with three quarts of flour, and sift it.
2. Dissolve three tea-spoonsful of pearl-ash in a cup of water, and pour it on the flour.
3. Melt half a pound of butter in a quart of molasses, and mix it with the flour.
4. Knead it well, cut it in shapes, and bake it.