Take half a pound of butter, melt and mix with a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, a pint of molasses, two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger, and a quart of flour. Dissolve two teaspoonfuls of soda in a wine-glass of milk, strain it into the cake, and add sufficient flour to make a soft dough. Roll it out thin, cut into small cakes, and bake them in a quick oven.
Ginger Snaps.
Recipe No. 2.
Take: Butter, 1 cupful; sugar, 1 cupful; molasses, 1 cupful; water, ½ cupful; ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, 1 tablespoonful each; soda, 1 teaspoonful; flour.
Mix a cupful of butter with one heaping cupful of sugar, one cupful of molasses, half a cupful of cold water, one tablespoonful each ground ginger and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, one of soda dissolved in hot water, and enough flour to make a pretty stiff dough. Roll out thin, and bake at once.
Golden Cake.
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ¾ lb.; eggs, yolks of 16; flour, 2 lbs.; milk, 1 cupful; lemon, 1; mace; baking powder.
Mix together one pound of fine white sugar, three quarters of a pound of butter, the yolks of sixteen eggs, the rind and juice of one lemon, one cupful of milk, and two pounds of flour, with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; season to taste with mace. Bake about half an hour.
Huckleberry Cake.
Take: Sugar, 1 cupful; molasses, 1 cupful; milk, 1 cupful; butter, ½ cupful; cream-tartar, 1½ teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful; flour; huckleberries, 1 pt.; allspice, cinnamon, and cloves.
Beat together one cup of sugar, one of molasses, one of milk, half a cup of butter, one teaspoonful and a half of cream-tartar, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water; stir in enough flour to make a soft sponge, and then add one pint of huckleberries, washed and dredged; season to taste with allspice, cinnamon, and cloves.