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Parson's Cake
5 eggs. 1 large teacupful brown sugar. 4 cupfuls flour. 3 cupfuls molasses. 1 1/2 cupful butter. Ginger and spice to the taste. 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little milk. Bake.--Mrs D.R.
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.
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5 eggs. 1 large teacupful brown sugar. 4 cupfuls flour. 3 cupfuls molasses. 1 1/2 cupful butter. Ginger and spice to the taste. 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little milk. Bake.--Mrs D.R.