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White Gingerbread

Ettie.

Rub half a pound of butter into one pound of flour, add half a pound of loaf sugar, which should be finely Rub half a pound of butter into one pound of flour, pounded and sifted, and the rind of one lemon very finely minced, one ounce of ground ginger and a nutmeg grated. Mix these well together; make one gill of milk just warm, stir in half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda,. and work the whole into a smooth paste; roll it out into cakes, and bake in a moderate oven from fifteen to twenty minutes.

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