- 3 cups Gold Medal Flour,
- ⅔ cup butter,
- ½ cup sugar,
- ½ teaspoonful salt,
- 1 cup cleaned currants,
- Grated rind 1 lemon,
- 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Mix dry ingredients, rub in butter, add currants and lemon rind, mix to a very thick drop batter with cold milk. Turn into well-greased loaf-pan, bake 1 hour in moderate oven.
MOLASSES COOKIES
- 1 quart molasses,
- 2 ounces soda,
- 1 pint and one gill of water,
- ¼ pound lard,
- Sufficient Gold Medal Flour to mix.
Put the molasses, water, soda and lard in a bowl, mix them together; then add flour enough to make a nice dough, suitable to roll out and cut; wash with milk or water on top.
Molasses cookies are very common cakes, but they are not easy to make, for the reason that there is no rule you can work by that will answer in all cases. All molasses does not work alike; some kinds will bear more water than others, and the weather has to be taken into consideration. In cold weather you can use more water than in warm weather. Sometimes you can use the same quantity of water as molasses. Be very careful and not get the dough too stiff, and do not work any more than is necessary to mix.
SPICE CAKES
Two cups sugar, ½ cup butter, cup sour milk, 2 cups Gold Medal Flour, a good ½ teaspoonful soda, the yolks of 5 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls cloves, 2 teaspoonfuls allspice, 1 nutmeg.
