Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• 6J pints of flour
• lib. of stoned raisins
• loz. of powdered cinnamon
• lqt. of Molasses
• six well-beaten eggs
• Joz. of alum
• J pint of boiling water
• J pint more water

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add the raisins, cinnamon, and molasses, and mix in the eggs.

2. 2

   Dissolve the alum in boiling water, cool, mix with additional water, and stir into the other ingredients.

3. 3

   Make into a dough, put it into greased tins, and bake in a moderate 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.

6J pints of flour, add lib. of stoned raisins, loz. of powdered cinnamon, and lqt. of Molasses, and mix in six well-beaten eggs. Dissolve Joz. of alum in J pint of boiling water, and when cool, mix it with J pint more water

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