CWS, you made this yet? Which did you try?
CWS4322 said:I tried the Eat Cake Gingerbread recipe. Nope, that's not it. I'll give another one of the recipes shared a try next month (I can't do Gingerbread every week!). The Eat Cake recipe was, well, too cakelike. Not dense, moist, or sticky enough. I think maybe using oil instead of butter and mixing it more like my banana bread recipe, which is the sticky, moist, dense texture her gingerbread was, might be the next experiment.
Oh--please do look when you have time. I suspect she didn't have a copy of FF, but it might have been a recipe that was in the newspaper or a church cookbook...exotic ingredients she did not use--she was not well-off, not a great cook, and lived in a remote area were an "exotic" ingredient might have been fresh green grapes in the winter months! God rest her soul, her gingerbread was great--I hope the angels are enjoying it, she took that recipe with her to her grave.Hmm. I remember a gingerbread I made many years ago, when I baked, and it was so simple, with no exotic ingredients. Am thinking it was either my Grandma's recipe, or from one of our church cookbooks. It was dark and moist and very gingery. Will have to seek it.
I'm thinking of taking inspiration from a couple of the recipes. I rather doubt she used crystallized ginger (location and being not a terribly creative cook), or cardamon (again, location, ethnic background, cost--my grandma used cardamon, but that was genetic). She "might" have used golden syrup. Don't know if she even knew there was such a thing as white pepper. I suspect she used blackstrap molasses, but I could be wrong. Stay tuned!
Black strap molasses was in almost every household when I was a kid. It was given to the children for the iron, plus cooking baked beans, gingerbread, etc.
I really don't like Canadian milk--it is sold in plastic bags! I don't like the taste--whether it is the feed the cows eat or the plastic bags, I don't know, but one of the ways I do drink Canadian milk is with 1T of BS molasses and ice cubes (the milk has to be ice cold).A tablespoon of BS molasses is also good stirred into a glass of cold milk.
I really don't like Canadian milk--it is sold in plastic bags! I don't like the taste--whether it is the feed the cows eat or the plastic bags, I don't know, but one of the ways I do drink Canadian milk is with 1T of BS molasses and ice cubes (the milk has to be ice cold).
Seriously? They still DO that? We haven't had bags out here since the 70s. Tell ON to smarten up already. Blech. Or come visit AB where the milk is sweet. Just like the people.
We still have some local dairies that sell their milk in glass bottles.
We still have some local dairies that sell their milk in glass bottles.
Here too Addie. I think poor CWS is getting the short end of the stick.
Sorry for the hijack! Back to gingerbread! Did you take pix?
Here too Addie. I think poor CWS is getting the short end of the stick.
Sorry for the hijack! Back to gingerbread! Did you take pix?
It is wonderful. They sell the heavy cream, 1/2 & 1/2 and chocolate milk in pint and quart sizes.That sounds really nice the chocolate milk in glass bottles MM...you certainly dont see that here...everything is in cartons these days!