Soft Ginger Cake

Ingredients

• four tablespoonfuls of hot water
• three of melted butter
• fill up the cup with molasses
• one teaspoonful of ginger
• one of soda
• enough flour to make a stiff cake dough

Method

1. 1

   Put the hot water, melted butter, and molasses into a cup.

2. 2

   In a stirring bowl, add the ginger and soda, then add the mixture from the cup.

3. 3

   Stir in enough flour to make a stiff cake dough.

4. 4

   Pour into square tins and bake carefully.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soft Ginger Cake. Take a teacup and put into it four tablespoonfuls of hot water, three of melted butter, and fill up the cup with molasses. Put into the stirring bowl one teaspoonful of ginger and one of soda, and to this add the mixture in the cup. Stir in enough flour to make a stiff cake dough

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