Soft Gingerbread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tsp. soda
1 c. boiling water
1 egg
1 c. molasses
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. lard (use other shortening)
2 c. flour
spice to suit

Preparation

This recipe was used by my grandmother, Luella McClintick Runyan, 1862-1937.