Put the molasses and butter in a pan and set on the stove. When the mixture boils up add the soda and ginger, and take from the fire immediately. Add the milk, the well-beaten egg and the flour, beat well. Bake in a shallow cake pan in a rather quick oven for 20 minutes.
Spice Cake.
- 1/4 cup butter.
- 1/2 cup molasses.
- 1/2 cup sour milk.
- 1/2 ssp. salt.
- 1/2 tsp. soda.
- The juice and rind of 1/2 lemon.
- 1/2 cup sugar.
- 2-1/2 cups flour.
- 1/2 tsp. ginger.
- 1 tsp. cinnamon.
- 1/4 nutmeg, grated.
- 1 egg.
Beat the butter to a cream. Gradually beat into it the sugar, then the spice and lemon, next the molasses. Now dissolve the soda in one tbsp. cold water and stir it into the sour milk; add this, and the egg well beaten, to the other ingredients. Lastly add the flour, and beat briskly for 1/2 minute. Pour into a well buttered pan and bake in a moderate oven for about 50 minutes.
Sponge Cake.
- 3 eggs.
- 2/3 cup flour.
- 2/3 cup pulverized sugar.
- The grated rind and juice of 1/2 lemon.
Beat the yolks of the eggs and sugar until very light, now add the juice and rind of the lemon and half the flour; beat the whites to a very stiff froth, add the remainder of the flour and the whites alternately, stirring lightly, pour into a greased cake pan. Bake in a quick oven from 25 to 30 minutes.
Roll Jelly Cake.
- 2 eggs.
- 1 cup sugar.
- 1-1/2 cup flour.
- 1/2 tsp. salt.
- 1 cup sweet milk.
- 3 (l.) tsps. baking powder.