Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes

Christine Terhune Herrick's 1905 subscription set, Books Three and Four complete - soup stock to cheese straws, with the famous chefs of the United States listed on the title page.

Gingerbreads

4 recipes in this part of Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes.

Soft Gingerbread

1/2 cupful butter, 2 cupfuls molasses, 1 cupful sugar, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful milk, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder; ginger and…

Gingerbread

1 cupful brown sugar and 3 tablespoonfuls butter, stirred to a cream; add 1 cupful New Orleans molasses, 2 eggs; mix well; stir dry 2…

Sour-Milk Gingerbread

1 cupful each molasses, sugar, shortening, and sour milk; 3 eggs, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 table-spoonful ginger, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 1…

Colonial Gingerbread

Put together 1 cupful Porto Rico molasses, 1/2 cupful butter (softened), 1/2 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cupful thick sour milk, 1 teaspoonful…

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