Ginger Cake

Ingredients

• 1% cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup sour mik
• 1 teaspoon each of salt
• 1 teaspoon each of ginger
• 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon each of soda
• 3 cups flour

Method

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   Cream butter and sugar, add molasses and eggs beaten, then add salt, sour milk, sifted flour, ginger, soda and cinnamon, and bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 cup molasses, 14 cup ground chocolate, 14 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, i teaspoon each allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, 2 cups chopped raisins, 1 cup citron, 1 cup walnuts. Cream butter and sugar together, add molasses and yolks of eggs, and milk. Mix spices, cream tartar and soda in flour. Dissolve chocolate in hot water and add to mixture. Then add raisins, citron and nuts with one spoon of flour, and lastly the whites of eggs well beaten. Bake 3 hours. Filling of Cake—2 cups brown sugar, 14 cup milk, butter — the size of a walnut. Flavor with vanilla, boil until creamy and beat until cold. ar MRS. VIOLET M’ILHANEY. MRS. ROBERT HOWARD. Rock Cake. 1 cup butter, 114 cups sugar, 3 eggs, 314 cups or — more flour, 114 cups raisins, 1 lb. walnuts, 1 teaspoon soda dissolv- — ed in 4 cup warm water, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt. 1 TEASPOON EACH OF CINNAMON AND NUTMEG, 1 TABLESPOON MOLASSES. MRS. CLYDE VAUGHT. Ginger Cake. 1% cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup molas- — ses, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup sour mik, 1 teaspoon each of salt, ginger, cinnamon and soda, 3 cups flour

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