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Ginger Pound-Cake

Name: Ginger Pound-Cake
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: two cupfuls of butter; two cupfuls of sugar; two cupfuls of molasses; two table-spoonfuls of ginger; one and one-half tea-spoonful of soda; one table-spoonful of cinnamon; one nutmeg; one tea-spoonful of ginger; one tea-spoonful of essence of lemon; six eggs; six cupfuls of flour

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGER POUND-CAKE. Take two cupfuls of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of molasses, two table-spoonfuls of ginger, one and one-half tea-spoonful of soda dissolved in the warm molas- ses, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, one nutmeg, one tea- spoonful of ginger, one tea-spoonful of essence of lemon, six eggs, six cupfuls of flour

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