Old Fashioned Stack Cake

13 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 3/4 c. brown sugar
  • 3/4 c. shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 c. sorghum molasses
  • 3 1/2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. cloves
  • 1 tsp. ginger
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • 3/4 c. buttermilk
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 qt. cooked dried apples or applesauce

Directions

  1. 1
    Cream together sugar and shortening.
  2. 2
    Add eggs and beat well. Stir in molasses.
  3. 3
    Sift flour with spices.
  4. 4
    Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk into which baking soda has been stirred.
  5. 5
    Use 2 cast-iron skillets for baking which have been greased and sprinkled lightly with flour.
  6. 6
    Warm skillets.
  7. 7
    Dip 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of dough which should be rather stiff, into center of each skillet.
  8. 8
    Wet hand in ice cold water and pat dough toward sides of skillet.
  9. 9
    Make a very thin layer.
  10. 10
    Bake at 375°.

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