¹⁄₄ cup butter
¹⁄₂ cup molasses
¹⁄₂ cup sweet milk
1 egg
1¹⁄₂ cups graham flour
¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking-powder
¹⁄₂ teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces
Melt the butter, add the egg, well beaten, molasses and milk. Mix the
dry ingredients and add to them the liquid mixture. Pour it into a
well-buttered, one-quart mould or into several smaller moulds. Do not
fill them more than two-thirds full. Place the moulds on a rack in a
six-quart cooker-pail of warm water, bring quickly to a boil and boil
thirty minutes if the larger cans are used; fifteen minutes, if the
small cans are used. Put it into the cooker for five hours. If sour milk
is available, omit the baking powder and add an extra one-fourth
teaspoonful of soda.
Serves six persons.