Heart to Hearth Cookery

Ellen Emlen writes in her manuscript receipt book for the receipt (recipe), Miss James Gingerbread, to mix the butter + sugar together, then the other materials, adding the milk and soda just before it is baked.  She wrote initially for a teaspoon of soda dissolved in a cup of milk and later added that sour cream is better.

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