Ft. Atkinson Ginger Bread

Ingredients

 * 1 cup New Orleans molasses
 * 1 cup boiling water
 * 2 cups Gold Medal flour, heaped
 * ½ cup butter
 * 1 egg
 * 1 teaspoon soda
 * 1 teaspoon ginger
 * 2 tablespoons Sugar

Directions

 * 1) Stir butter and Sugar together
 * 2) Rub it into the flour till fine
 * 3) Add molasses and yolk of egg and beat well
 * 4) Add the boiling water and white of egg beaten stiff.

Makes a thick sheet in a biscuit pan.