Brown Cake.
4 cups flour.
1 cup butter.
1 cup molasses.
1 cup best brown sugar.
6 eggs, beaten very light.
1 table-spoonful ginger.
1 table-spoonful mixed cloves and cinnamon.
1 pound sultana raisins, washed, picked over and dried.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
Warm the molasses, butter and sugar slightly, and whip with an egg-beater to a cream. Beat in the yolks, the spices, the whites, flour, soda-water, and lastly the fruit, dredged with flour.
Beat hard for two or three minutes, and bake in two loaves or in small round tins.
The oven must be moderate and steady.