Gingerbread

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

Mix ingredients in order given. Beat well and bake in loaf thirty minutes, or in muffin pans twenty minutes.