Superior Ginger Cakes

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• one cupful of sour milk
• one quart of molasses
• one cupful of sugar
• one cupful of butter
• one cupful of lard
• one tablespoonful of ginger
• one even tablespoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   The eggs and sugar should be beaten as for cake; the butter worked into the flour; after working the ingredients thoroughly, handling the dough as little as possible.

2. 2

   Flour the board and rolling-pin well, as the dough should be as soft as can be handled.

3. 3

   Roll a quarter of an inch thick; cut into cakes and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUPERIOR GINGER CAKES. Four eggs, one cupful of sour milk, one quart of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of lard, one tablespoonful of ginger, one even tablespoonful of soda

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