Remembering the Past Australia
Soldiers' Gingerbread (1917)
“Send a good big home-made cake to your soldier at the front or in camp.”
Originally published in the Sunday Times (Sydney), on Sunday 30 September 1917
- 1/2 pound (226gms) of butter
- 1/4lb. (113gms) of treacle
- 1lb. (454gms) of flour
- 1/2lb. (226gms) of moist sugar
- 3 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
- 1oz. (28gms) of ground ginger
- 1/2 grated nutmeg
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoonful of vinegar
- 1/4 pint (118gms) of warm milk
- Cream the butter and add to it the treacle; place the flour in a basin with the sugar, ginger, and nutmeg.
- Mix well, and as you stir add the treacle and butter, then the eggs well beaten, the vinegar, and the soda dissolved in the milk.
- Grease a flat tin, and bake the cake in a hot oven for two hours.
