Ginger Bread

One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, two eggs, well beaten, three cups flour, two spoons soda, all kinds spices, one teaspoon vanilla, last, one cup boiling water. Ethel C. Bennett.

Ginger Cake

One-half cup butter, one large half-cup sugar, two eggs, one cup molasses, two and one-half cups flour, one-half teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon each cinnamon and ginger, two level teaspoons soda. Sprinkle soda over all and add one cup boiling water. Bake in slow oven.

Mrs. Parsal.

Ginger Bread

One-half cup molasses, one-half cup brown sugar, one-half cup boiling water, one-half cup shortening (butter and lard), two cups sifted flour, one eggf one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon soda in hot water.

Mrs. L. B. Reed.

Soft Ginger Cake

One-half cup sour milk, one level teaspoon soda, one-half cup New Orleans molasses, one-half cup sugar, one egg, one teaspoon ginger, and one teaspoon cinnamon. Piece of lard size of an egg, two rounding cups of unsifted flour (sift into cake), one almost heaping tea-spoon baking powder.