Mendenhall Sourdough Gingerbread

From: Tea Jenny

On Nov 15, 2009

I almost lost my starter due to neglect, so when building it up again I decided to make this rather than bread, and I was not disappointed it was very nice. I did add an extra teaspoon of ginger, and used black treacle for molasses, and my sugar was the very dark muscovado sugar. I also had some stem ginger in syrup so I chopped that up and sprinkled that on the top. I really wanted it to be as dark and rich as possible, and it was I served it with whipped cream, but it would be just as good with custard. It is a bit different from ginger bread I have made before but we enjoyed it a lot. The sourdough flavour didn't come though, but I think that was just my starter and if it was to mature a bit it I am sure you would be able to taste it.

From: newtocookingm&m

On Nov 12, 2009

I was very excited about this recipe, I had a ginerbread friendship bread once and I have been on a hunt to try and find it. It was okay I liked it with the cool whip the flavors are good. My husband would give 3 stars. He said well its nothing to write home about. I did 2 tsp ginger and 1.5 tsp cinnamon. I only did a little more than 1/4 cup of molasses since I was afraid it may be too strong with only 1/2 cup brown sugar to sweeten it. Plus the sugar in the sourdough starter so didn't want to add more sugar just in case. Next time I will do more brown sugar but about the same on molasses. We felt it needed the cool whip!

From: SaraFish

On Aug 23, 2002

This is very good. It's moist and it's mild. Not a peppy spicy gingerbread but a sweet cakey one. The sourdough flavor doesn't really come through, it tastes mostly like molasses. Next time I might double the ginger and add a pinch of cloves to try and get a bit more flavor from it. Also, the pan size wasn't specified. I used my 8X8 pyrex pan that I had Pam'ed and it was a perfect size. The recipe makes way more than 4 servings like it says, I would say it's more like 8-10. I'm uploading a picture, as you can see we topped it with cool whip and it was very yummy!

From: Chef Little Fort

On Apr 17, 2005

I love it! Dense, moist and rich. I did double the ginger and cinnamon to 2 teaspoons each and added 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves. As far as the number of servings, by the time I finished "sampling" the product, 1/4 of it was gone, so I'd be tempted to say it makes 4 generous servings!