4 cups light bread dough - 2 pounds.

1 cup black molasses - 10 oz.

1 cup, small, lard or butter - 6 oz,

1 heaping teaspoon ground ginger.

Flour to make it soft dough.

An egg improves it but is not essential.

Work the ingredients all together at about six hours before baking time. Let rise 4 hours, knead it on the table, taking care the molasses in the dough does not cause you to take in too much flour and make the cake tough. Roll it out in sheets, take up on the rolling pin and unroll on the baking pans. Brush over the top with water that has a little melted 1 lard in it. Rise in the pans about an hour, bake 20 minutes. Brush over with syrup. Cut in square blocks for sale.

Cost of material - dough 5, molasses 3, lard 8, ginger 2, flour 3; 21 cents for 4 pounds. Size of cakes according to lightess. Usually cut into 12 five cent blocks.