Spice Cakes.
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Take: Butter, 1 teacupful; sugar, 1 teacupful; molasses, ½ teacupful; soda, 1 teaspoonful; nutmeg, 1 (grated); ground ginger, cinnamon, caraway seed, coriander seed, 1 teaspoonful each.
Melt a teacupful of butter, and mix it with a teacupful of sugar, and half a teacupful of molasses; add a teaspoonful of cinnamon, a teaspoonful of ground ginger, a grated nutmeg, and a teaspoonful each of caraway and coriander seed; put in a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a teacupful of warm water, stir in flour till stiff enough to roll out thin; cut into cakes and bake them in a slow oven.
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