Molasses Cake
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 5
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 356. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, one and a half of flour, one. teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a tea- spoonful of soda, four eggs (the whites only). COFFEE CAKE. Bake two sponge cakes and let them cool. Take two and a half cups of milk, one egg, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, two cups of flour ; boil until it thickens ; flavor with very strong coffee ; place between the cakes, and frost the top. GINGERBREAD LOAF. One cup of butter, one of molasses, one of sugar, half of cold water, one tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one of soda dissolved in boiling water ; melt the butter, slightly warm the molasses, spice and sugar, and heat together ten minutes ; then put in the water, soda and flour ; stir very hard and bake in three loaves. Brush them over with syrup while hot and eat fresh. SOFT GINGERBREAD. One and a half cups of Orlea'ns molasses, half cup brown sugar, half cup butter, half cup of sweet milk, teaspoonful o*f soda, teaspoonful of allspice, half teaspoonful of ginger ; mix all thoroughly together, and add three cups of sifted flour ; bake in shallow pans. GINGER DROP CAKES. Three eggs, one cup of lard, one of baking molasses, one of brown sugar, one large tablespoonful ginger, one tablespoonful soda dissolved in a cup of boiling water, and five cups unsifted flour; drop tablespoon- fuls of this mixture into a slightly greased dripping-pan about three inches apart. GINGER SPICE CAKE. One cup of molasses, half a cup of butter, half a cup of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one tea- spoonful of baking powder, one of salt ; bake in a quick oven. MOLASSES CAKE. One cup each of butter, sugar, sour milk and molasses, five cups of flour, two eggs, one tablespoonful of soda and one of ginger
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