This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
One and two-thirds cups of rye flour, one and a third cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter cup of molasses, one and a quarter cups of milk, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter.
Mix and sift dry ingredients, add molasses, milk, eggs well beaten, and butter. Bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes.
 
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