Ginger for the Sweet Tooth: Ginger Bread

View from the best East Tennessee front porch: a little piece of Mountain Heaven
Near Elizabethton in the foot hills of the Appalachians


Fall in East Tennessee with friends is a time to enjoy each others company and share recipes. On The Tolley farm you will get some of the best food on the planet.

Sam Trolley’s Ginger Bread
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
½ cup molasses
¼ cup fat free egg substitute or 2 eggs
3 tlb. Canola oil
1 and ½ cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
Combine first four ingredients, stir and mix well.
Combine all the dry ingredients, stir and add to the wet ingredients.
Pour into an 8 x 8 non-stick pan.
Bake for 25 to 35 minutes at 350-degree oven.
Cool on rack.

Sauce for Gingerbread
2/3 cups sugar
½ tsp. soda
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup margarine
2 tlb. Corn sunup
Boil for 5 minutes and pour over the gingerbread.