Ginger Bread.
4 tablespoons shortening, 1 cup of good N. O. molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, teaspoon soda, 4 tablespoons of boiling water, just a little salt, put 2 tablespoons of hot water on 1 teaspoon alum and 2 on soda, mix the same as for cookies, divide in four parts, roll out the size of your tin and mark the top with a knife.
Devils Food No. 1.
Grate ¹⁄₂ cube of Bakers Chocolate, yolk of 1 egg, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, mix together put on the stove and heat, cool before adding other ingredients. 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, 2 eggs (stir to a cream), ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Stir in the chocolate, bake in layers and put together with icing or make a loaf cake.
Devils Food No. 2.
Grate ¹⁄₂ cake of chocolate, yolk of 1 egg, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, mix together put on the stove and heat all together. Cool before adding the other ingredients. 1 cup sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup butter, 2 eggs (stir to a cream) ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Stir in the chocolate bake in a loaf cake or layers and put together with icing.