Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of New Orleans molasses
• four cups of flour
• one cup of water
• one cup of butter
• one egg
• two tea-spoonfuls of soda
• one orange

Method

1. 1

   Grate orange peel, add juice and pulp to the mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Molasses Cake. — Two cups of New Orleans molasses, four cups of flour, one cup of water, one cup of butter, one Qggy two tea-spoonfuls of soda, one orange ; grate the peel, put that in, and also the juice and pulp. Carolina Cake. — One cup of butter, two cup3 of sugar, two and a half cups of flour, half a cup of sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar, half a tea- spoonful of soda, one lemon ; grate the peel and put that and the juice into the cake. Corn-starch Cake. — One cup of sugar, half a cup of but- ter, two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one cup of flour, one cup of corn starch. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the milk, then the flour in which you have mixed two tea^-spoonfuls of baking powder, then the eggs, and last the corn-starch. Aunt C '5 Lemon Jelly Cake. — Three cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, three eggs, two and a half tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. This will make five layers. For the jelly. Two large lemons, one cup of sugar, one egg

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