Grandmother's Ginger Cake

Ingredients

• Quarter cup of butter
• one tablespoonful of soda
• half cup of sugar
• one egg
• half cup of molasses
• half teaspoonful of ginger
• half cup of sour milk
• half teaspoonful of cloves
• two cups of flour
• half teaspoonful of cinnamon
• half cup of raisins
• grated rind of orange or lemon

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar.

2. 2

   Mix with the egg beaten very light and add the spices and molasses.

3. 3

   Sift flour twice before measuring, add soda and sift again; mix in with the sour milk.

4. 4

   It should be rather soft.

5. 5

   Add the orange or lemon peel and the raisins which have been rolled in flour.

6. 6

   Bake half hour in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

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.

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

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