Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• One and a half cups of molasses
• half a cup of butter
• three cups of flour
• one cup of milk
• two eggs
• one small teaspoon of soda
• ginger and other spices to taste

Method

1. 1

   Mix the molasses with the butter thoroughly, then stir in the flour, and add the milk; next the eggs well beaten, and lastly the soda dissolved in a little milk or water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOLASSES CAKES, cup of shortening, one pint of milk, four eggs, one) Aunt Caddie's Molasses Cake. — Put a table- nutmeg, one teaspoon of soda, and a little salt, spoon of lard or butter in a cup with one even tea- 91 spoon of soda, fill the cup with hot water, add one ) gar, one cup of milk, one teaspoon of soda, three cup of molasses, one egg, a pinch of salt, spice to j cups of flour, with cinnamon and ginger to taste, taste, and two cups of flour. Mrs. P. R. Watson. \ Bake twenty minutes. Mrs. R. B. Tindall. Molasses Cake.— One and a half cups of molasses, half a cup of butter, three cups of flour, one of milk, two eggs, one small teaspoon of soda, ginger and other spices to taste

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