Tennessee Mountains Stack Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
3 eggs
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup milk

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar well.
Add molasses,scraping cup to get it all out.
Add eggs,one at a time,beating well after each addition.
Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk.
Spoon batter into six greased and floured round cake pans,spreading batter about 1/3 inch thick in each pan.
Bake about 15 mintues in 350 oven.
When cool,put thick applesauce between the layers,and stack them up and sprinkle the top with powdered sugar.