I had a batch of gingerbred turn out like that... the recipe said to boil the honey. Somehow I managed to take it to the hard-crack stage, and once the crumbs were mixed in and it cooled in the loaf pan, even a frozen food saw wouldn't dent it. And it smelled good, too, darn it. Devra Devra Langsam www.poisonpenpress.com devra at aol.com