Molasses Drop Cake

Ingredients

• One cup molasses
• 1% cup sugar
• 1 egg
• % cup of shortening (butter or lard)
• % cup hot water
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 cup raisins and currants
• 5 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Drop on buttered tins and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Magnet users cook book (1920) by Petrie Manufacturing Co, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon ginger, % cup molasses, 1 cup raisins, 1 teaspoon soda, flour enough to make cakes drop on pan, Bake in not too hot an oven.— Mrs, Alex. Hergott, Proton Station, Ontario. GRAHAM WAFERS. One-third cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, 144cups Graham. flour, 4% cup wheat flour, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons baking powder, % teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, add egg, milk and vanilla. Mix and sift dry ingredients till well blended, and add first mixture. Roll thin and bake in a moderate oven from 12 to 15 minutes, or till crisp.—Miss Edith A. Swazie, Woodstock, Ontario. HERMITS. One and one-half cups sugar, It cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 large cup raisins, stoned and chopped, 1 teaspoon allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg, - 2 teaspoons baking powder, flour to roll out——Mrs. Webster Noble; Rusa-_ | gornis, N. B. IMPERIAL COOKIES. One cup butter, 244 cups sugar, 3 eggs, well beaten, 2 teaspoons soda, dissolved in 14% tablespoons hot water, 2 cups A PLEASURE TO OPERATE THE MAGNET Mr. 8S. R. Porteous, of Woodland, Man., says:—It gives me great pleasure to separate when I see the milk rolling through the Magnet at a “2.40” gatt, — with little power. I am done in a third of the time required with the make. I used to own. It makes me feel like singing, “The Burden of My Heart Has Rolled Away.” We find the Magnet easy to clean, easy to turn and satis~ ; factory in every way. 64 flour, sifted with 1 teaspoon cinnamon and ¥% teaspoon salt. Add to this: One cup of raisins, 1 cup currants,-14 lb. shelled walnuts, 1 slice lemon peel, | chopped fine and mixed with 1% cups flour, Drop by teaspoon in buttered | pan.—Miss Nellie Hodgins, Wiarton, Ontario. 5 JOHNNY BROWNS. One cup lard or butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 egg, 1% cups currants. Flour enough to make quite a stiff dough. Drop by spoonsfuls into a pan and bake twenty-five minutes.—Mrs. George Clearwater, Roseisle, Man. MACAROONS. One egg, well beaten, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon a - butter, 2 cups oatmeal, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon flour. Mix all together until stiff. —Miss Nellie Ford, R. R. No. 3, Dutton, Ontario. E 3 a MOLASSES DROP CAKE. One cup molasses, 1% cup sugar, 1 egg, % : z cup of shortening (butter or lard), % cup hot water, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tea- - gpoon ginger and salt, 5 cups flour, 1 cup raisins and currants

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