Mississippi Stage Plank or New Orleans Ginger Bread

Ingredients:

• 2 cups molasses (Cane syrup)

• ½ cup sugar

• 1 cup oleo

• 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon ground cloves

• 1 teaspoon ground dried ginger

• 1 teaspoon salt

• ½ cup boiling water Directions: 1. Mix ingredients listed above, then sift and mix with as much . our as you require to make a dough that can be moulded by the hands into . at "stage planks," about six inches long and three inc…