Soft Ginger Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half cup of sugar
• three cups of molasses
• one cup of butter
• one cup of sweet milk
• three eggs
• seven cups of flour
• one teaspoon of soda
• one tablespoon of ginger
• one tablespoon of cinnamon
• one tablespoon of nutmeg
• one teaspoon of cloves

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one table- spoon cinnamon, one tablespoon ginger, one-half teaspoon cloves, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in water, two and one-half cups flour. Mrs. Jennie Boyer Huffman. Soft Ginger Cake. One and one-half cup of sugar, three cups of molasses, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three eggs, seven cups of flour, one teaspoon of soda, well beaten in the molasses, one tablespoon each of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and one teaspoon of cloves. Molasses Cake. Two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one-half cup of hot water, two yolks and one white of eggs Bake in layers, putting white frosting between. Mrs. T. W. Blatchford. Excellent Soft Gingerbread. One and a half cups of Orleans molasses, half cup of brown sugar, half cup butter, half cup of sweet milk, teaspoon soda, teaspoon allspice, half teaspoon ginger; mix all together thoroughly; add three cups of sifted flour and bake in shallow tins. Mrs. J. T. Richards. Mrs. H. W. Medbery's Gingerbread. Take molasses one cup, soda bicarbonate one tablespoonful; beat well together; add six tablespoonf uls of boiling water, melted butter six tablespoonfuls, ginger (ground) one-half tea- spoon, flour enough to make it fairly stiff. Bake in slow oven. New Century Cook Book. 141) Soft Gingerbread. One cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup clear coffee, one cup molasses, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon cinnamon, flour to make stiff. Mrs. W. C. Collins. Soft Molasses Cake. One cup molasses, one-half cup lard and butter mixed, one- half cup vinegar, cream together; one-half teaspoonful soda dis- solved in two-thirds cup boiling water, add to the former; then stir in two cups of flour. Mrs. Lowell. Sugar Gingerbread. Three pounds flour, one and one-half pounds brown sugar, one pound butter, five eggs, one tablespoon ginger, one teaspoon soda; roll very thin on a baking sheet, crease with a gingerbread roller, cut in small squares; bake in a hot oven. Mrs. H. N. Mudge. Soft Gingerbread. One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup butter, one cup sour or butter milk, one teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, one tablespoon ginger,

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