LIGHT GINGER-BREAD.
Beat to a cream half a pound of butter, and two of sugar; beat five eggs very light; add them to the sugar and butter. Have ten cups full of flour in a pan, into which put six cups full of molasses; season with half a cup full of ginger, and one tablespoonful of cloves; dissolve one and a half teaspoonsful of soda in sour milk, and put it in just before baking: bake in small pans.