This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
Break 1 egg into a cup, fill with sour cream, and add to 1 cup of sugar; beat well. Then add 1 1/2 cups flour sifted with 1 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp. soda. Flavoring to taste.
1 cup xxxx sugar, 3 tbsp. melted butter. Cream to spread easily. Flavoring - a tsp. of cocoa may be added if desired. - Mrs. Sadie Belnap.
Sift 2 cups flour with 3/4 tsp. soda, 1 tbsp. ginger, 2 tsp. cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. salt; beat 1 egg, and 1/2 cup sugar, 3/4 cup sour cream, 1/2 cup molasses. Mix well. Put in buttered pan and bake 1/2 hour.
- Mrs. J. A. Johnson.
 
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