Lowney’s – Hard Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1½ cups butter (337g)
• 2½ cups sugar (approx. 500g)
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda
• ¼ cup milk (60ml)
• 3 teaspoons ginger
• 8 cups flour (approx. 960g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add remaining ingredients. Spread quarter inch thick on buttered inverted dripping pan.
2. Roll with creased rolling pin.
3. Bake in quick oven (220°C, 425°F , Gas Mark 7, Fan 200°C).
4. Cut in squares.
5. Cool and keep in air-tight receptacles.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard