Brown Sugar Ginger Cake

1 cup molasses 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup shortening.

1 cup boiling water.

2 cups flour.

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ginger 2 egg's 2 scant teaspoons soda.

Dissolve soda in boiling water and add to first three ingredients. Sift flour with spices and add to first mixture. Lastly, add the well beaten eggs.

Mrs. B. S. Potter.

Ginger Cake

2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses 1/2 cup butter 2 1/2 cups flour.

1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon ginger \1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1 cup boiling water.

Mix in order given except that soda should be dissolved in boiling water and added last.

Stella Price Eldridge.

Soft Ginger Bread

3 cups flour 1 cup milk 1 cup lard.

1 1/2 cups New Orleans molasses.

1 teaspoon soda.

1 tablespoon ginger.

2 eggs.

Beat yolks of eggs and lard together. Add milk, soda and molasses, then ginger and flour. Beat whites to a stiff froth and fold in. Bake in moderate oven forty-five minutes.

Mrs. E. B. Fowler.

President Harding's Favorite Ginger Bread

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup molasses.

1 egg.

1/4 cup butter.

1 cup sour milk.

1 1/2 cups flour.

Pinch of Morton's salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1 cup raisins.

Sift flour, spices and salt together, dissolve soda in the milk and mix all the ingredients together and beat well. Bake in a moderately hot oven.

Anonymous.

Molasses Cake

1 cup sugar.

1 cup molasses.

2 tablespoons butter.

3 cups flour.

2 teaspoons soda 1 cup hot Chase & Sanborn's coffee.

Mix the first four ingredients then add the soda mixed with the coffee. Lastly add the nuts and raisins. Bake in moderate oven. Make icing of the white of one egg beaten stiff, juice and rind of one oragne and thicken with confectioner's sugar.

Mrs. Charles J. Rice.