Marshmallow Gingerbread
By: Anonymous
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 2:42am

Ingredients




1/2 cup shortening
1 cup molasses
1 egg
 cups flour
1 3/4 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 cup sour milk (1 tbsp lemon juice or marshmallows

Preparation

1 Melt shortening (Fannie says you can even use chicken fat!) and add molasses, egg (well-beaten), sifted dry ingredients, and sour milk. Beat vigorously, turn into a buttered and floured dripping pan and bake in a moderate oven (probably 350) 2 For 25 minutes. Remove from pan, cut in half crosswise, and put marshmallows on top of one half, layering the other half on top. Put into oven and let stand for3 minutes. Watch carefully! (A modern oven may be hotter than a wood oven.) 3 Remove to serving dish, cool slightly, cut into squares and serve with sweetened whipped cream.