Pounds of sifted flour; case the inside
of square tins with white paper; fill them three parts full; sift a
little sugar over, and bake it in a warm oven, and while hot remove
them from the moulds. _Orange Gingerbread._--(No.
75.) Sift two pounds and a quarter of fine flour, and add to it a
pound and three quarters of treacle, six ounces of candied
orange-peel cut small, three quarters of a pound of moist sugar, one
ounce of ground ginger, and one ounce of allspice: melt to an oil
three
quarters of a pound of
butter; mix the whole well together, and lay it by for twelve hours;
roll it out with as little flour as
possible, about half an inch thick; cut it into pieces
three inches long and two wide; mark them in the form of
checkers with the back of a knife; put them on a baking-plate about a
quarter of an inch apart; rub them over with a brush dipped into the
yelk of an egg beat
up with a tea-cupful of milk; bake it in a cool oven about a quarter
of an hour: when
done, wash them slightly over again, divide the pieces with a knife
(as in baking they will run together). _Gingerbread Nuts._--(No. 76.)
To two pounds of sifted flour, put two pounds of treacle, three
quarters of a pound of moist sugar, half a pound of candied
orange-peel cut small, one ounce and a half of ground ginger, one
ounce
of ground caraways, and three quarters of a pound of butt