Ryzon Old Fashioned Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• X cupful (4 ounces) sugar
• }4 cupful (4 ounces) shortening
• I egg
• X cupful (l gill) sour milk
• X cupful (i gill) molasses
• I level teaspoonful ginger
• 1 level teaspoonful cinnamon
• 3 level cupfuls (X pound) flour
• X level teaspoonful soda
• 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and shortening.

2. 2

   Add well-beaten egg, cinnamon, ginger, molasses and milk — soda dissolved in one tablespoonful hot water.

3. 3

   Then add flour and Ryzon, which have been sifted together.

4. 4

   Turn into well-greased tin.

5. 5

   Bake in moderate oven about thirty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ryzon baking book (1916) by Marion Harris Neil, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RYZON OLD FASHIONED MOLASSES CAKE BY MRS. ELLA SMITH, BROOKLYN, N. Y. X cupful (4 ounces) sugar. }4 cupful (4 ounces) shortening. I egg. X cupful (l gill) sour milk. X cupful (i gill) molasses. I level teaspoonful ginger. 1 level teaspoonful cinnamon. 3 level cupfuls (X pound) flour. X level teaspoonful soda. 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon

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