This will be found quite an acquisition to the list of cheap and easy cakes: 1 cup sugar, small - 6 ounces. 1 cup butter - 6 ounces. 1 cup molasses - 12 ounces.

1 cup milk.

2 eggs.

6 cups flour - 11/2 pounds.

1 teaspoon each of ground ginger and cinnamon.

Make the butter soft and mix it and sugar, molasses, milk, eggs, and spices together in a pan. Mix the powder in the flour, then stir that in and beat up thoroughly. Bake in two small cake moulds. Makes 3 lbs @ 9 cents a pound.

This cake can and ought to be made with a cup of sour milk instead of sweet, and a teaspoon of soda instead of the powder - only sour milk is not always at hand to use.