Molasses Cut Cakes

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• one of sugar
• six eggs
• five cupfuls of sifted flour
• one tablespoonful of cinnamon
• two tablespoonfuls of ginger
• three teacupfuls of cooking molasses
• one heaping teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs very light, the yolks and whites separately, and add to it; after which put in the spices; then the molasses and flour in rotation, stirring the mixture all the time; beat the whole well before adding the soda and but little afterwards.

2. 2

   Put into well-buttered patty-pan tins and bake in a very moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 197. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLASSES CTTP CAKES. One cupful of butter, one of sugar, six eggs, five cupfuls of sifted flour, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, three teacup- fuls of cooking molasses and one heaping teaspoonful of soda

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