New Orleans Gingerbread from The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets by Will

New Orleans Gingerbread from The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets by Will

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Hannah Hungary Widdifield (1768-1854) was a Quaker confectioner in Philadelphia and rival of Elizabeth Goodfellow. Like Mrs. Goodfellow, she also ran a cooking school, and her recipes are structure...

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups fine white cornmeal, less
  • 1 tablespoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter
  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • Grated zest of 1 orange
  • 1½ cups unsulfured molasses
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 6 eggs

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