{"id":857,"date":"2015-11-25T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:07:11","slug":"amazing-gingerbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/amazing-gingerbread\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Gingerbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As fall rolls around each year, you are likely to find me in my kitchen making gingerbread.  My mom discovered this recipe when she stayed at the romantic B&#038;B called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salado.com\/lodging_info.cfm?id=10\">Inn on the Creek<\/a> in Salado, Texas.  I believe, with all my heart, that it is the best gingerbread recipe on the planet!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 eggs, beaten\n<\/li>\n<li>1 cup buttermilk\n<\/li>\n<li>1 pound dark brown sugar\n<\/li>\n<li>2 cups all-purpose flour\n<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup softened butter\n<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon baking soda\n<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon ginger\n<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons cinnamon\n<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 teaspoons fresh ground nutmeg (this is what makes it awesome!)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350 degrees.\n<\/li>\n<li>Add eggs to buttermilk. Blend and set aside.\n<\/li>\n<li>Combine brown sugar and flour. Cut in butter. Reserve 1 cup of mixture for later use. To remainder of sugar mixture add baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in buttermilk mixture just until all ingredients are moist.\n<\/li>\n<li>Pour batter into 9 by 13-inch greased and floured metal baking pan. Sprinkle reserved cup of sugar mixture over top of batter.\n<\/li>\n<li>Bake 35-45 minutes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Serve with mounds of freshly whipped cream. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Whole Nutmeg looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nutmeg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nutmeg-300x196.png\" alt=\"whole nutmeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-859\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nutmeg-300x196.png 300w, http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nutmeg.png 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Use a grater to get fresh nutmeg.  I know, it seems like extra work\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but once you taste it, you will never want your nutmeg any other way than fresh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fall rolls around each year, you are likely to find me in my kitchen making gingerbread. My mom discovered this recipe when she stayed at the romantic B&#038;B called Inn on the Creek in Salado, Texas. I believe, with all my heart, that it is the best gingerbread recipe on the planet! 2 eggs,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/amazing-gingerbread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazing Gingerbread<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}