1/8 teaspoonful of salt.
1 teaspoonful of cinnamon.
1/2 teaspoonful of soda.
1/4 of a nutmeg, grated.
The juice and rind of half a lemon.
1 egg.
Beat the butter to a cream. Gradually beat into it the sugar, then the spice and lemon, and next the molasses. Now dissolve the soda in one tablespoonful of 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 half a minute. Pour into a well buttered pan, and bake in a moderate oven for about fifty minutes.
This cake will keep moist for a week or ten days. If one like fruit, half a cupful of stoned raisins and half a cupful of currants may be stirred lightly into the batter just before it is put in the pan.
Blackberry Jam Cake.
1/2 cupful of butter.