Appalachian Molasses Sweet Bread (1984)

•  2 cups flour
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1 to 2 tspns ginger
• 2 tspns baking powder
• 1/4 tspn baking soda
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup molasses or 2/3 cup molasses and 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg

Sift together the dry ingredients and add melted butter and the molasses. Mix well, adding buttermilk and egg.

Pour into a loaf pan and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 to 50 minutes.

More "Lost" Sweet Bread Recipes

Orange Marmalade Bread (1985)
Brown Sugar Crumpets (1905)

(Origin - "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery"  edited by Linda Garland Page and Elio Wigginton. Originally published in 1984, republished in 1992 by the University of North Carolina Press.)