Little Molasses Cake
From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884
Serves 5
This quantity will make up about two quarts of flour.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Little Molasses Cake. To one quart of molasses add one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a teacupful of buttermilk or sour cream; let the molasses get warm, then stir in the soda, putting into it three-quarters of a pound of butter and lard mixed, and buttermilk ; add two table-spoonfuls of ginger
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