Gingerbread Recipe Using Boiled Molasses?

Soft Molasses Gingerbread
1 cup molasses
1 egg
1/3 cup butter
2 cups flour
1 3/4 teaspoons soda
2 teaspoons ginger
1/2 cup sour milk
1/2 teaspoon salt

Put butter and molasses in saucepan and cook until boiling point is reached. Remove from fire, add soda, and beat vigorously. Then add milk, egg well beaten, and remaining ingredients mixed and sifted. Bake fifteen minutes in buttered small tin pans, having pans two-thirds filled with mixture.

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gregory klotz

December 20, 20100 found this helpful

Hey - I just found your note. I have an old German recipe, very detailed, which calls for boiling molasses. I never understood why. As a kid that's what we always did with my grandmother. I still don't know why and am wondering if it would taste different if I didn't boil it.