Thick Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 lb treacle
• 1/4 lb butter
• 1/4 lb coarse brown sugar
• 1-1/2 lb flour
• 1 oz ginger
• 1/2 oz ground allspice
• 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• 1/4 pint warm milk
• 3 eggs
• GINGERBREAD.]

Instructions

1. Put the flour into a basin, with the sugar, ginger, and allspice;
2. mix these together;
3. warm the butter, and add it, with the treacle, to the other ingredients.
4. Stir well; make the milk just warm, dissolve the carbonate of soda in it, and mix the whole into a nice smooth dough with the eggs, which should be previously well whisked;
5. pour the mixture into a buttered tin, and bake it from 3/4 to 1 hour, or longer, should the gingerbread be very thick.
6. Just before it is done, brush the top over with the yolk of an egg beaten up with a little milk, and put it back in the oven to finish baking.