Ginger Cakes
From How we cook in Tennessee .., 1906
Serves 24
Half this recipe makes a big lot of cakes. This recipe is attributed to Mrs. Sam Lancaster.
Presented as published in 1906. 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 How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
two tablespoons soda, two eggs, one cup lard, two heaping tablespoons ginger, flour to make a dough of medium stiffness, one tablespoon salt, knead well, roll and cut with biscuit cutter, Brush over the cakes with a mop dipped in mixture of yolk of one egg and two tablespoonfuls molasses ; bake in rather quick oven. — Mrs. Reese Lillard. Grandmother's Ginger Cake. — Quarter cup of butter, one tablespoonful of soda, half cup of sugar, one egg, half cup of 160 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. molasses, half teasponful of ginger, half cup of sour milk, half teasponful of cloves, two cups of flour, half teaspoonful of cin- namon, half cup of raisins, grated rind of orange or lemon. Cream the butter and sugar. Mix with the egg beaten very light and add the spices and molasses, sift flour twice before measuring, add soda and sift again ; mix in with the sour milk. It should be rather soft. Add the orange or lemon peel and the raisins which have been rolled in flour. Bake half hour in moderate oven. Spiced Ginger Cake. — One cup each of sugar, butter and mo- lasses, three eggs, three cups flour, one teaspoon soda dissolved in cup of sour cream, half grated nutmeg, one teaspoon cloves, one tablespoon ginger. Extra good. Ginger Cakes. — Two eggs, two teacups molasses, one teacup sugar, not quite one teacup buttermilk, two teaspoons soda, three-quarters cup lard, one heaping tablespoon ginger; flour to make a soft dough. Good. — Mrs. Wells. Ginger Cakes. — Three pints molasses, seven eggs, two cups sugar, two cups lard, three large spoons ginger, two table- spoons soda, and enough flour to make very soft dough
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