Molasses Layer Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup brown sugar
• one-half cup molasses
• one-half cup sour milk
• one tablespoon butter
• yolks of two eggs
• one-half teaspoon cinnamon
• cloves
• allspice
• one teaspoon soda
• flour

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half cup sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one and one-half cups flour, one cup currants, two ounces citron cut fine, one cup blackberry jam, one teaspoonful allspice, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful nutmeg. E. A. Stearns. Ginger Cake. One cup New Orleans molasses, one cup sugar, one cup butter or drippings, one cup sour milk, three cups flour, three eggs, two teaspoons soda, two tablespoons ginger, one teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves, one-half nutmeg. Bake in layers, put together, sprinkled powder sugar. Mrs. Merriell, 12 182 New Century Cook Book. Cake Without Butter. One cup sugar, two eggs, one-half cup boiling water, one cup flour, two teaspoons baking powder, vanilla to taste. Mix sugar and eggs together, then add water and flour. Mrs. Russell. Molasses Layer Cake. One-half cup brown sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-hall cup sour milk, one tablespoon butter, yolks of two eggs, one- half teaspoon cinnamon, cloves, allspice, one teaspoon soda, flour. Frosting. — Whites of two eggs, one cup of brown sugar, one teaspoon ginger. Mrs. Ellen Green. Prince of Wales Cake. Dark Part. — One cup brown sugar, one cup butter, one- half cup sour milk, two cups flour, one cup chopped raisins, yolks of three eggs, two tablespoons molasses, all kinds of spices and one teaspoon soda dissolved in sour milk. White Part. — One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one- half cup sweet milk, one-half cup cornstarch, one cup flour, whites of three eggs, and baking powder. Use frosting as a filling. Mrs. B. E. Arntzen. Croton Cake. One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, half pound but- ter, six eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately; small teacup sweet milk, teaspoonful soda sifted in the flour, two teaspoons cream tartar; flavoring. Mrs. J. W. Nicholson. Loaf Cake. Two cups of light dough, one cup sugar, one cup chopped raisins, small half cup of soft butter, one egg, half a nutmeg, teaspoon of cinnamon; dissolve half teaspoonful of soda in two tablespoons of milk, mix the butter and sugar well into the dough with the hands, before adding the rest of the ingredients; flour the raisins; a little flour may be added if the cake seems too thin. Mix or stir very thoroughly, and raise about an hour or until it looks light. Ash Meadow. Snowflake Cake. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar. Beat these to a cream and add one cup of water, one teaspoonful of flavoring New Century Cook Book. 188 and three cups of flour. Stir in the whites of eight eggs which have been well beaten. Then add three teaspoonfuls of baking powder stirred in one-half cup of flour. Mrs. B. F. Masters. Drop Cake. One cup of butter, one-half cup of sugar, two eggs, one- half cup of milk, one pint of flour, or enough to make stiff, one teaspoon of baking powder, one cup of currants, flavor with nutmeg; drop from a spoon on a greased tin. Mrs. Forester. Dolly Varden Cake. One and one-half cups pulverized sugar (or one of granu- lated), one-half cup butter (small); cream together, add beaten white of three eggs, one cup milk, two and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla, divide in three parts, and bake two layers white; to the remainder add one-half cup seeded and chopped raisins, one-half teaspoon cinnamon

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