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Gingerbread Fingers, American

Warm half a pound of best treacle. Stir into it a piece of butter the size of an egg, and four table-spoonfuls of sifted sugar. Take a little powdered allspice, a heaped tea-spoonful of ground ginger, the rind of a lemon chopped fine, and a pound of the best flour. Mix all the dry ingredients together, and stir the treacle and butter into them. Last of all, dissolve an ounce of carbonate of soda in a table-spoonful of warm cream, and put it with the rest. Work all well together for some time. Roll the mixture out to the thickness of half an inch. Divide it into "fingers," and put at once on well-oiled tins, in a moderate oven. Store the fingers in a dry place, not exposed to the air, and they will be the better for a month's keeping. Time to bake, an hour or more. Probable cost, 1s. 6d. per pound.