1 pint flour.
1/2 cup sour milk.
1 tsp. soda.
1 egg.

Put the molasses and butter in a pan and set on the stove. When the
mixture boils up add the soda and ginger, and take from the fire
immediately. Add the milk, the well-beaten egg and the flour, beat
well. Bake in a shallow cake pan in a rather quick oven for 20
minutes.


SPICE CAKE.

1/4 cup butter.
1/2 cup molasses.
1/2 cup sour milk.
1/2 ssp. salt.
1/2 tsp. soda.
The juice and rind of 1/2 lemon.
1/2 cup sugar.
2-1/2 cups flour.
1/2 tsp. ginger.
1 tsp. cinnamon.
1/4 nutmeg, grated.
1 egg.

Beat the butter to a cream. Gradually beat into it the sugar, then the
spice and lemon, next the molasses. Now dissolve the soda in one tbsp.
cold water and stir it into the sour milk; add this, and the egg well