Plain Ginger Cakes

Name: Plain Ginger Cakes
Ingredients: 1/2 cup molasses; 2 cups flour; 1 soda teaspoonful of; 1/2 salt teaspoonful of; 1/4 cup butter; 1/2 ginger tablespoonful of; 1/4 cup boiling water; 1/2 cinnamon teaspoonful of

8 ingredients

5 steps

Ingredients

1/2 cup molasses
2 cups flour
1 soda teaspoonful of
1/2 salt teaspoonful of
1/4 cup butter
1/2 ginger tablespoonful of
1/4 cup boiling water
1/2 cinnamon teaspoonful of

Directions

1

Stir the soda into the molasses; melt the butter in the boiling water; turn all into a bowl and stir in the flour, sifted with the salt and spices; add more flour if needed, but keep the dough as soft as can be handled.
2

Roll a little of the dough at a time to a sheet about three-eights of an inch thick and cut into rounds.
3

Press two pecan nut meats into the top of each, and dredge with granulated sugar.
4

Bake in a moderate oven.
5

The recipe will make about twenty cakes.