White Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1/2 lb loaf sugar
• the rind of 1 lemon
• 1 oz ground ginger
• 1 nutmeg grated
• 1/2 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• 1 gill milk

Instructions

1. Rub the butter into the flour;
2. add the sugar, which should be finely pounded and sifted, and the minced lemon-rind, ginger, and nutmeg.
3. Mix these well together; make the milk just warm, stir in the soda, and work the whole into a nice smooth paste;
4. roll it out, cut it into cakes, and bake in a moderate oven from 15 to 20 minutes.