Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  4             ounces  sweet butter
     1/2           cup  light or dark brown sugar
     1/2           cup  molasses -- cane syrup or black
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  2                     eggs
  1 1/2           cups  all-purpose flour
     1/2      teaspoon  baking soda
  1         tablespoon  ground ginger -- or to taste
  1           teaspoon  cinnamon
     1/2      teaspoon  cloves
     1/2      teaspoon  allspice
  2          teaspoons  vanilla extract -- or lemon brandy
     1/2           cup  buttermilk

Preparation:

Cream butter and brown sugar. Beat until fluffy and add molasses. Beat in eggs. Add dry ingredients, then vanilla and buttermilk. Turn into a buttered cake pan and bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for between 20 and 30 minutes. (Check after 20.) This is just one of many recipes that I love. Like Laurie Colwin, I am a mad sucker for English cookbooks and I now have more gingerbread recipes than I could possibly make in one lifetime. But this recipe is a great "all-purpose" gingerbread. It's also really good with chocolate icing as long as you use a fairly bittersweet recip

Nutritional Information:

1355 Calories (kcal); 13g Total Fat; (8% calories from fat); 35g Protein; 272g Carbohydrate; 378mg Cholesterol; 939mg Sodium