President Harrison Molasses Cake (1863)

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 )