Depression Era Syrup Cake

7 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup blackstrap molasses
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 14 cups flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

  1. 1
    Cream crisco, sugar and eggs, add sorgum.
  2. 2
    Mix well baking soda and buttermilk together.
  3. 3
    Alternate flour and buttermilk/ baking soda mix.
  4. 4
    Beat together well.
  5. 5
    Best baked in a bundt pan.
  6. 6
    Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes to an hour.
  7. 7
    Watch cake closely, it will rise very high and then fall.
  8. 8
    When it falls it is done, remove from oven and cool in pan.

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