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Molasses Cake

Put seven or eight breakfast cupfuls of flour into a large basin and rub in until quite smooth one-half pound of butter; then mix with it one-half pound of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger. Dissolve one tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda in three tablespoonfuls of warm water, stir in with it one breakfast cupful of sour milk together with two breakfast cupfuls of molasses. Work the dough thoroughly. If it is a little too stiff, more water can be added, or if not stiff a little more flour. Put the dough in a buttered cake-tin and bake in rather a quick oven. When cut, the interior should be quite dark.