Gringer Cup Cake

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls butter
• 2 cupfuls sugar
• 1 cupful molasses
• 1 cupful cream
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoonful dissolved saleratus
• 4 heaping cupfuls flour
• 3^ cupfuls ginger

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; whisk the eggs light, and add to it; then stir in the other ingredients.

2. 2

   Butter a pan or earthen mould, and pour in the mixture.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven, or it may be baked in queen-cake pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gringer Cup Cake — Two cupfuls butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful molasses, 1 cupful cream, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoonful dissolved saleratus, 4 heaping cupfuls flour, 3^ cupful ginger.

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