Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• 7 breakfast-cupfuls of flour
• ill), of butter
• £lb. of sugar
• 2 table-spoonfuls of ground ginger
• 1 table-spoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 2 table-spoonfuls of warm water
• 1 breakfast-cupful of sour milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour until smooth, mix in sugar and ginger.

2. 2

   Dissolve bicarbonate in warm water, mix with sour milk, and stir into the ingredients.

3. 3

   Work the dough, adjust with water or flour as needed, put in a buttered cake-tin, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 544. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Molasses Cake. — (1) Put 7 breakfast-cupfuls of flour into a large basin, and rub in until quite smooth ill), of butter ; then mix with it £lb. of sugar and 2 table-spoonfuls of Fig. 1187. Molasses Cake. ground ginger. Dissolve 1 table-spoonful of bicarbonate of soda in 2 table-spoonfuls of warm water, then mix it with 1 breakfast-cupful of sour milk

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