Molasses Pound Cake

Ingredients

• I cup sugar, small — 6 ounces
• I cup butter — 6 ounces
• I cup molasses — 12 ounces
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 6 cups flour —  pounds
• I teaspoon each of ground ginger
• and unnamon.

Method

1. 1

   Make the butter soft and mix it with sugar, molasses, milk, eggs, and spices together in a pan.

2. 2

   Mix the powder in the flour, then stir that in and beat up thoroughly.

3. 3

   Bake in two small cake moulds.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Molasses pound cake, warm (ij^ lbs, 14 cents.) French rolls (30, 12 cents.) Butter (12 ounces @ 24, 18 cents.) Milk (3 qts., 19 cents.) Cream, coffee, tea, etc., {19 cents.) 85 cents; 17 persons, 5 cents a plate. 529— Fried Liver and Gravy. Only about half the people anywhere will order liver when there is an alter- native of cold meat or something else. Cut about 8 thin slices, which will be little over half a pound. Lay them in a frying pan with some drippings or bacon fat and fry brown on both sides. Season with salt and pepper while cooking. Take up the liver and put into the pan a heaping \ablespoonful of flour and when that ha*s been stirred around, a cupful ot hot water. Let boil up and strain over the liver. 520— How To Bake Potatoes. there is no better way than baking or roasting either for potatoes that cost five for a cent or lar^e' truffles that cost five dollars each. Pick out the largest and smoothest potatoes to bake because any size will do to pare and mash and even if a person should waste part of a too large one on his plate it would slill be the cheapest dish of the meal. After washing well cut off the ends of the potatoes. It may not make them any mealier, although some suppose it does; but, it makes them look better, and as if they had been cared for. Put them in the oven as a rule just one hour before the meal. When done instead of sliding them into a hot closet or under the stove to become dry and worthless, take up each one in a damp] towel in the hand and press it gently together and after that cover the pan containing them with the same damp cloth and keep them warm. 531— Molasses Pound Cake. Though there are fifty other good ways This will be found quite an acquisition to the list of cheap and easy cakes : I cup sugar, small — 6 ounces. I cup butter — 6 ounces. I cup molasses — 12 ounces. 1 cup milk. 2 eggs. 6 cups flour — \Y2 pounds. I teaspoon each of ground ginger and unnamon.

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