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Drop Ginger Cakes

One cup sugar, two-thirds cup molasses, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half cup hot water, twelve tablespoons shortening, two teaspoons soda, one teaspoon pulverized alum, one tablespoon ginger; stir about as stiff as pound cake, set it on ice for one or two hours, drop from a small tablespoon on pans a little distance from each other and bake quickly. Take one-half of the hot water to dissolve the alum in and the other half for the soda, a little salt. If preferred, these cakes may be rolled and cut out with the cake cutter. They are very nice.