Molasses Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1 c. butter or margarine
3 eggs, well beaten
1 c. molasses
2 c. flour (plain)
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. soda
1 c. boiling water

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add molasses. Sift the flour with cloves, ginger, cinnamon and salt. Put the soda in the boiling water. Add flour mixture to the sugar mixture. Gradually add soda water, stirring constantly. Beat mixture well. The batter will be very thin, but do not add more flour. Pour into a greased and lightly floured 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes or until when you press top of cake it leaves no dent.