Recipe - Gingerbread And Lemon Sauce

1 cup Butter
2 cup (scant) sugar
4 tablespoon Molasses
2 teaspoon Each ginger & cinnamon
1 teaspoon Each ground cloves & nutmeg
1 pn Salt
2 cup Buttermilk
2 teaspoon Soda
2 Eggs; well beaten
3 cup Flour; sifted
1 cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
1 Lemon; juice of
1 Egg
One half (up to)
1 cup Boiling water

GINGERBREAD: Melt 1 cup butter, then add 2 cups sugar, molasses, ginger,
cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt; mix well. Dissolve soda in the
buttermilk, then add to other mixture. Stir well. Add 2 eggs, stir in
flour. Grease and flour 9x12inch pan. Bake at 350 for 3540 minutes. Serve
hot or cold with whipped cream or lemon sauce. LEMON SAUCE: Put 1 cup
sugar, One half cup butter, lemon juice, 1 egg and One half to 1 cup boiling water in
top of double boiler and stir until thick. Serve hot or cold over
gingerbread.

MRS DAVID HENDERSON (GRACE)

MARVELL, AR

From the book High Cotton Cookin', Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0918544149, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.