Mom'S Old Fashioned Molasses Stack Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter or margarine
6 eggs
2 1/2 c. sugar (Mommy sometimes used about half brown)
3 tsp. lemon extract
4 c. sifted flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 to 3/4 c. molasses
about 1 c. thick apple butter

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs and beat well.
Add lemon extract and blend.
Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture.
Add molasses, blending well.
(Mommy never used nuts or candied fruit in her cakes, but these can be added if desired, also raisins.)
Bake in 4 or 5 small round cake pans at 325\u00b0 for about 1 1/2 hours or until a clean broom straw inserted into the middle of cake comes out clean.