4 tablespoonfuls sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful baking soda
1/4 cupful milk
2 cupfuls flour
2 cupfuls whole wheat flour
1/2 cupful seeded raisins
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1-1/2 cupfuls molasses
1/2 cupful chopped nut meats
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
3 tablespoonfuls chopped candied lemon peel
Mix flours, then add peel, raisins, nuts, spices, and salt. Melt
Crisco, molasses, and sugar, then cool, and add them with eggs well
beaten, with soda mixed with milk. Mix well and turn into Criscoed and
floured cake tin. Bake in moderate oven one hour.
Sufficient for one large cake of gingerbread.