Old-Fashioned Ginger Cake

Name: Old-Fashioned Ginger Cake
Ingredients: Two-thirds of a cup of molasses; filled with brown sugar; one-half cup melted lard or drippings; one teaspoonful of ginger; one teaspoonful of ARM AND HAMMER SODA; one-half cup of water; two cups of flour

From Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes, 1900

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD-FASHIONED GINGER CAKE. Two-thirds of a cup of molasses, filled with brown sugar ; one-half cup melted lard or drippings, one teaspoonful of ginger, a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus) dis¬ solved in one-half cup of water, and two cups of flour

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