Heat shortening; add molasses, sugar and buttermilk.
Cool and add egg (beaten).
Sift all dry ingredients together.
Add liquid mixture to make stiff dough.
Divide into 8 even balls.
Press into round cake pans and bake at 350\u00b0 for about 20 minutes.
Stack with applesauce or apple butter.
ugar and shortening.
Add molasses and mix well.
Beat
Combine sugar, shortening and molasses; beat until smooth.
Add buttermilk, eggs, soda, ginger and salt; mix well.
Add flour, about a cup at a time, beating just until blended after each addition (do not overbeat).
Divide dough into ten portions and place each on a greased cookie sheet or 10-inch cake pan; pat into a 10-inch circle.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 5 to 7 minutes.
Remove to cooling rack.
Stack the layers, spreading about 2/3 cup apple butter between each.
Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs and molasses.
Sift flour. Add spices and sift again.
Mix.
Bake in thin layers, 3 tablespoons per layer.
Stack with applesauce or dried apple or apples of your choice.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 12 to 15 minutes.
Cream butter and sugar together.
Add eggs; add molasses. Sift flour, spices and salt together.
Add to mixture.
Put soda in boiling water and add to batter, beating constantly by hand. Pour into 4 greased and floured 9-inch pans.
Bake at 350\u00b0 until done, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Cool and stack together with applesauce between the layers.
Mix sugar and Crisco.
Add eggs and beat well.
Add molasses with the soda.
Add the ginger, salt and enough flour to make a stiff dough.
Pinch off balls of dough and press in a 8 or 9-inch pan.
Bake at 350\u00b0 until firm to touch.
Stack and put apple butter or cooked apples between layers.
Mix
shortening,
brown sugar, molasses and eggs.
Beat until smooth.
Add buttermilk.
Mix spices in flour.
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cake pans (8 1/2 x 11 1/2-inch) and bake at 350\u00b0.
This should make 5 or 6 thin layers.
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.
Cream sugar and shortening together.
Add eggs and mix well. Add milk, molasses and nutmeg.
Beat for 3 minutes.
Add flour gradually until too thick to mix with mixer.
Using a spoon stir until stiff enough to pour out onto floured board.
Knead again, taking off enough to make one layer at a time, kneading until real stiff.
Roll out thin.
Cut with a fluted pie pan.
Place layers in cake pan.
Will make 7 layers.
Bake at 350\u00b0 until brown.
Cool.
Beat eggs, sugar, oil, molasses and buttermilk. Put all dry ingredients in separate bowl. Mix together. If too thin to work, add self-rising flour. Bake at 400\u00b0 for 8 to 10 minutes.
Cream together shortening, sugar and molasses.
Add eggs, one at a time; beat well.
Sift flour, spices, baking powder, soda and salt.
Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
Divide batter into 5 parts; put into well-greased 9-inch pans.
Bake at 400\u00b0 until lightly browned.
Spread each layer, except top, with apple mixture or applesauce.
ntil light.
Stir in molasses.
Add eggs, one at
Mix all together.
Turn out dough on well-floured board and knead well.
Add flour to make stiff.
Roll out very thin.
Cut with scalloped pie pan, place in a 9-inch round cake pan and bake at 350\u00b0 until golden brown.
Cool.
Cream shortening or butter; add sugar a little at a time blending well.
Add molasses and mix thoroughly.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Cream shortening and sugar.
Add egg and molasses.
Beat well. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk.
Roll out in thin layers and bake 12 to 15 minutes at 350\u00b0.
Put applesauce or apple butter between layers.
Beat shortening and sugar together until light.
Beat eggs in one at a time.
Add vanilla and molasses and mix well.
Sift flour with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
Add to shortening mixture alternately with buttermilk.
Mix thoroughly; the dough should not be sticky.
Add more flour, if needed.
CAKE:.
Prepare cake mix according to package directions
Use your favorite white cake recipe or use 1 white cake mix and bake according to instructions in 9 x 13-inch cake pan.
Let cool 10 to 15 minutes.
Poke holes in the cake with a toothpick, fork tines, etc.
Melt butter, brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice in a saucepan.
Spray sides and bottom of a cake pan.
Pour brown sugar mixture into it.
Arrange pineapple rings and cherries on top.
Prepare cake mix according to directions on package, or make your favorite cake recipe and pour over mixture in cake pan.
Bake in a 350\u00b0 preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes.
Let stand to cool a few minutes, then invert onto a plate.
Prepare favorite white cake recipe or boxed cake mix and divide batter between 1 (8-inch) square pan and 1 (8-inch) round pan.
Bake according to directions.
Remove cakes from pan and cool.