Soft Molasses Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup shortening
• two thirds cup brown sugar
• one egg
• one-half cup molasses
• two-thirds cup milk
• two cups flour
• three teaspoons Eoyal Baking Powder
• one-half teaspoon allspice
• one-half teaspoon cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream shortening, add sugar slowly, then beaten egg.

2. 2

   Mix in molasses, half of the flour, baking powder, salt, and spices.

3. 3

   Add milk and remaining flour.

4. 4

   Bake in a greased shallow pan for about forty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SOFT MOLASSES CAKE. One-half cup shortening, two thirds cup brown sugar, one egg, one-half cup molasses, two-thirds cup milk, tAvo cups Hour, three teaspoons Eoyal Baking Powder, one-half teaspoon allspice, one-half teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon salt. Cream shortening well, add sugar slowly, beat- ing continually; add beaten egg. Beat well and add molasses, half of the flour, baking powder, salt and spices w'hich have been sifted together. Add the milk and the rest of the dry ingredients, Mix w'ell and bake in a greased shallow pan in moderate oven about forty minutes. Serve hot. — Mrs. J. A. Snipes. NUT LOAF. Two cupfuls flour, four teaspoonfuls Eoyal Baking Powder, one teaspoonful salt, one-half cupful sugar, five tablespoonfuls Crisco, one egg, one cupful milk, one half cupful English walnuts, one-half -cupful raisins. Sift dry ingredients. Pinch or cut in Crisco. Beat the egg well and to it add milk and beat into dry ingredients. Add nuts and raisins. Beat thoroughly, pour into Criscoed pans (bread pans are good.) Let stand in warm place twenty minutes. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. — Mrs. Joe Albright. SPICE CAKE. Two cups brown sugar, one cup sour cream, one cup butter, two cups flour

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