favorite old fashioned gingerbread

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup molasses
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup hot water

Recipe

• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). greased and flour one 9 inch square pan.
• cream together the sugar and butter or margarine. add egg, and beat well. mix in the molasses.
• sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and clove. add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture; add the hot water, and mix well.
• pour batter into pan and bake for one hour. allow to cool in pan and serve.