The receipt, (recipe) for Plebian Ginger Bread is to mix three large spoonful of pounded ginger, with three quarts of flour–sift it, dissolve three tea-spoonful of pearl-ash in a cup of water, and pour it on the flour; melt half a pound of butter in a quart of molasses, mix it with the flour, knead it well, cut it in shapes, and bake it.
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