President Harrison Molasses Cake (1863)
"President William Henry Harrison... During his presidential campaign, a large rally in Ohio featured such food as corn dodgers, hard cider, and barbecued ham."
Original is 24 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (78 g)
- Calories 268.4
- Total Fat - 9.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.8 g
- Cholesterol - 23.7 mg
- Sodium - 111.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 44.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.3 g
- Sugars - 29.6 g
- Protein - 3.4 g
- Calcium - 81.6 mg
- Iron - 2.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt butter and molasses together
Step 2
Add three or four cups of flour(start with the smaller amount go higher)
Step 3
Then add sugar, cloves, and half the sour cream.
Step 4
Put in the rest of the cream when you have dissolved the saleratus(baking soda) in it.
Step 5
Then take enough more flour to make it about as thick as tea cakes.
Step 6
Stir it 10 or 15 minutes,(this was by hand)
Step 7
Add the currants,
Step 8
And bake it in pans like cup cake.(grease that puppy ,spray pam)
Step 9
350 for 20 minutes im guessing(watch so doesnt burn )
Tips
No special items needed.
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