{ Blogtober 2025 - Day 25 - Favorite Fall Recipe }

 One of my favorite fall recipes, is that of Gingerbread, especially the Laura Ingalls Wilder recipe.  If you're a Little House on the Prairie fan than you know exactly what I'm referring to.

It smells amazing as it is baking!

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Gingerbread

Mix together:
1 C. brown sugar
½ C. shortening
1 C. molasses

Add:
2 t. baking soda that has been dissolved in
1 C. boiling water

Sift together then add:
3 C. flour
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. ginger
1 t. cloves
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. allspice
½ t. salt

Add last:
2 eggs, well beaten

Bake at 350 in a greased 9 x 13″ pan until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder