Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• one cup lard
• one cup molasses
• one cup brown sugar
• one tablespoon ginger
• one tablespoon soda
• one teacup boiling water
• five cups unsifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve soda in boiling water, mix all ingredients well, drop spoonfuls into a slightly greased pan about three inches apart.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup molasses, one cup lard, two egg.s, one-half cup cold water, one tea.sp(M)n ginger, three tea- spdons soda, one teasi)oon each of cloves and cinnamon. Mr.s. Dr. Bauer. THE PENNSYLVANIA HERMAN COOK ROOK. 18 GINGER COOKIES NO. 2. One pint molasses, one enp sugar, one cup lard, one cup sour milk, four tea¬ spoons soda, ginger to taste, heat mo- Insses, lard and sugar, then put in milk when partly cool, stir in flour, let stand over night, roll out next morning and hake. Mrs H.Oeotz, llartville. GINGER SNAPS. One pint X. O molasses, let come to a boil, then add one-half pint sugar, one- half pint lard and butter mixed, one tea¬ spoon ginger, cloves and cinnamon, one teaspoon soda dissolved in a large spoon¬ ful boiling water, add a little sprinkle of salt and pepper, flour to make a stiff dough, roll thin. .Mrs. F. Strassner, Canhm, O. DROP CAKES. Three eggs, one cup lard, one cup mo¬ lasses, one cup brown sugar, one table¬ spoon ginger, one tablespoon soda, one teacup boiling water, disvsolve soda in tlie water, five cups unsifted flour

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