Dessert

Mary Washington's Gingerbread is for Dessert, Dinner.

Mary Washington's Gingerbread takes 45 minutes to prepare.

Mary Washington's Gingerbread takes 60 minutes to cook.

Mary Washington's Gingerbread makes 16 servings.

The ingredients for Mary Washington's Gingerbread are:

3 cp all-purpose flour (sifted)
2 tbsp ginger
1 1⁄2 tsp cinnamon
1 1⁄2 tsp nutmeg
1 1⁄2 tsp mace
1 tsp cream of tartar
1⁄2 tsp salt
1 cp raisins
4 oz unsalted butter
1⁄4 cp dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cp dark molasses
1⁄2 cp honey
1⁄4 cp rum, Bourbon, whiskey, or brandy
1⁄2 cp milk
3 lg eggs (beaten)
1⁄4 cp orange juice (reserve rind before squeezing oranges)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp warm water

Here is how you make Mary Washington's Gingerbread:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Line a 13x9 pan with aluminum foil, making sure to cover the sides of the pan as well as the bottom. Butter the foil and set pan aside.2. Sift together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cream of tartar, and salt. Set aside.3. Cover the raisins with boiling water and let stand for 5 minutes. Drain in a strainer, then spread on paper towels to dry.4. In large bowl with an electric mixer, cream butter until soft. Add sugar and beat to mix. Add molasses and honey and beat well. Add sifted dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with bourbon and milk in one addition, and eggs and orange juice in the other addition.5. Dissolve baking soda in warm water and mix into the batter.6. Remove bowl from mixer and stir in grated orange rind and raisins.7. Turn into prepared pan and smooth the top.8. Bake 45-50 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly touched.9. Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then cover pan with a cookie sheet, invert pan, remove pan, peel off foil, cover with large rack, and turn gingerbread so it finishes cooling right-side up.Serving Size: makes 16 servingsNumber of Servings: 16Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user FARALLON.

The nutritional information for Mary Washington's Gingerbread is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 16
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 301.8

• Total Fat: 8.3 g
• Cholesterol: 53.9 mg
• Sodium: 184.4 mg
• Total Carbs: 52.1 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.5 g
• Protein: 4.4 g