1881 - What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

Old Time Ginger Cake

DDV CULINARY

One pint molasses,
one quart flour,
one-half teacup brown sugar,
one teacup butter,
one tablespoonful cinnamon,
two tablespoonsful ginger,
one teacup sour milk.
With it mix a teaspoonful soda and three eggs.

Cream butter and sugar together,
then add molasses, then flour, then eggs, then milk, then ginger and cinnamon;
stir thoroughly and put to bake in oblong pans.