A Nice Molasses Cake

Name: A Nice Molasses Cake
Ingredients: One cup of molasses; one and a half cups of sugar; one cup of butter; four eggs; a cup of sour milk; heaping spoonful of soda; one pound of seeded and chopped raisins; the same of currants; You may add flour to roll it out like biscuit

From La cuisine creole, 1885

Molasses cake is liable to stick.

Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A NICE MOLASSES CAKE. One cup of molasses, one and a half cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four eggs, a cup of sour milk îind heaping- spoonful of soda. If désirable, y ou may add one pound of seeded and chopped raisins, or the same of eurrants; grease the pan carefuUy as molasses cake is liable to stick, and is always more difilcult to get out of the pan than sugar cakes. You may add flour to roU it out like biscuit

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