Ginger Loaf
6 eggs. 4 cupfuls molasses. 2 cupfuls of butter. 6 cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1 tablespoonful ginger. Cinnamon to your taste.--Mrs. P.W.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
6 eggs. 4 cupfuls molasses. 2 cupfuls of butter. 6 cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1 tablespoonful ginger. Cinnamon to your taste.--Mrs. P.W.