Gingerbread IV

Description
Sufficient for one small loaf of gingerbread.

Ingredients

 * ½ cupful sugar
 * 1 egg
 * ½ cupful molasses
 * ½ cupful milk
 * 1⅓ cupfuls flour
 * ¼ cupful Crisco
 * 1 teaspoonful salt
 * 2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
 * 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
 * ½ teaspoonful powdered cloves
 * ½ teaspoonful baking soda or 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Icing

 * 1 teaspoonful Crisco
 * 1 cupful (½ lb) maple sugar
 * 1 tablespoonful flour
 * 1 egg
 * 1 cupful boiling water

Loaf

 * 1) Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices.
 * 2) Mix and turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes.

Icing

 * 1) Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water.
 * 2) Rub together Crisco and flour.
 * 3) Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten egg.
 * 4) Then return to fire and stir briskly until thickened.