Gingerbread

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter (I used salted)
• 1 egg
• 1 cup unsulphured molasses
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup hot water
• 1/2 cup apple sauce (optional for moistness)
• 1/4 cup diced crystallized ginger (optional - for a Starbucks copycat recipe) 

Instructions

• heat kitchen appliance to 350*F.

• Prepare a bread pan by lining with parchment paper and spraying with cookery spray. this may guarantee bread slips right out of your pan with zero sticking out.

• mix sugar and butter along till downy.

• Add egg and syrup and beat well, scraping sides as required.

• Add saleratus, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt. Mix well.

• Add flour in 1/2 cup at at time and combining between every addition.

• whereas combining, SLOWLY add water to skinny batter out. now could be the time to feature the apple sauce if you want, although I did not would like it.

• If adding the crystallized fruit, add now.

• Pour mixture into ready bread pan and bake for fifty five minutes. take away from kitchen appliance and add produce a tent over bread to forestall from edges aiming to dark.

• Place bread back in kitchen appliance and bake for fifteen - twenty a lot of minutes.

• take away from kitchen appliance once a strip inserted into the center of bread comes out clean. 
• Enjoy...