8 ounces molasses - a teacupful.

3 large tablespoons sugar - 3 ounces.

4 ounces butter - 1/2 cup. 1 cup milk or water.

3 eggs.

1 large teaspoon ground ginger.

1 large teaspoon baking powder.

1 pound or quart of flour.

Melt the butter in the milk made warm, and pour them into the molasses and sugar, mix, add the eggs, the ginger and powder, and lastly the flour.

It is a great improvement to beat the cake thoroughly with a spoon. It is too soft to be handled. Spread it an inch thick in a buttered pan or mold. Bake twenty or thirty minutes.

Cost of material - molasses 3, sugar 2, butter 8, eggs 7, ginger 1, powder 1, flour 3; 25 cents for about a two quart mold or about 20 cuts in a thin sheet for hotel supper.