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Sourdough · Autumn and winter

Sourdough Discard Gingerbread

A dark square cake, molasses and butter, with discard stirred in. It should be damp in the middle, not wet.

50 minutes · Serves 9 · One 8-inch square pan

Dark sourdough gingerbread in a square pan, cut into nine squares with one taken out

“Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate.”

Proverbs 24:13

Ingredients

  • 10 g butter, for the pan
  • 80 g butter, melted
  • 100 g molasses
  • 40 g honey
  • 1 egg (50 g)
  • 100 g sourdough discard, fed or unfed
  • 60 g hot water
  • 220 g all-purpose flour
  • 8 g ground ginger
  • 4 g cinnamon
  • 1 g ground cloves
  • 5 g baking soda
  • 3 g fine salt

Method

Making Sourdough Discard Gingerbread: The batter should be loose and dark, not a dough.
The batter should be loose and dark, not a dough.
Making Sourdough Discard Gingerbread: Pour it into the buttered 8-inch square pan.
Pour it into the buttered 8-inch square pan.
  1. 1

    Heat the oven to 350°F. Butter an 8-inch square pan with the 10 grams of butter.

  2. 2

    Whisk the melted butter, molasses, honey, egg, discard, and hot water. The mixture will look thin and dark.

  3. 3

    Stir the flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, and salt. Stir them into the wet ingredients until no dry flour remains. Do not beat it. Pour it into the pan. It should be a loose batter, not a dough.

  4. 4

    Bake 30 to 36 minutes, until the top springs back and a crumb from the center is cooked, not sticky and raw. A wet shine in the middle needs 4 more minutes. Cool in the pan 15 minutes before you cut it.

From the kitchen

  • Molasses is the dark flavor. Honey alone will not make gingerbread. The butter is the fat. Do not swap in a seed oil.
  • If the top sinks deeply and the middle is a pudding, the oven was too hot or you opened the door early. Bake the next one a little longer at 350°F.

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