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SOFT GINGER CAKE
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SOFT GINGER CAKE

14 ingredients 1 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

899
Calories
28g
Protein
26g
Fat
138g
Carbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Molasses 1 tbsp (20g) 58
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • one cupful of butter
  • two cupfuls of cooking molasses
  • two cups of sifted flour
  • a cupful of brown sugar
  • a cupful of sweet milk
  • a tablespoonful of ginger
  • a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon
  • a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a spoonful of water
  • a spoonful of water
  • three eggs
  • two common square bread-pans
  • half into
  • ginger
  • cinnamon

Directions

1

Stir to a cream one cupful of butter and half a cupful of brown sugar; add to this two cupfuls of cooking molasses, a cupful of sweet milk, a tablespoonful of ginger, a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon; beat all thoroughly together, then add three eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately; beat into this two cups of sifted flour, then a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a spoonful of water and last, two more cupfuls of sifted flour. Butter and paper two common square bread-pans, divide the mixture and pour half into each. Bake in a moderate oven. This cake requires long and slow baking, from forty to sixty minutes. I find that if sour milk is used the cakes are much lighter, but either sweet or sour is most excellent.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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