pint of molasses, a
table-spoonful of ginger, a pint of flour, and a couple of beaten eggs.
Fresh lemon peel, cut into small strips, improves it. Dissolve a couple
of tea-spoonsful of saleratus in half a pint of milk, and stir it into
the cake. Add flour to render it of the consistency of unbaked pound
cake. Bake it in deep pans about half an hour.

173. _Sugar Gingerbread._

Mix a pound of sugar with six ounces of butter. Beat four eggs, and stir
them into the butter and sugar, together with three tea-spoonsful of
ginger. Stir in gradually a pound and a half of flour--dissolve a
tea-spoonful of saleratus in a wine glass of milk, and stir it in, and
bake the gingerbread immediately.

174. _Ginger Snaps._

Melt a quarter of a pound of butter, the same quantity of lard--mix them
with a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, a pint of molasses, a couple
of table-spoonsful of ginger, and a quart of flour. Dissolve a couple of
tea-spoonsful of saleratus in a wine glass of milk, and strain it into
the cake--add sufficient flour to enable you to roll it out very thin,
cut it into small cakes, and bake them in a slow oven.

175. _Spice Cakes._

Melt a tea-cup of butter, mix it with a tea-cup of sugar, and half a
tea-cup of molasses. Stir in a tea-spoonful of cinnamon, the same
quantity of ginger, a grated nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful each of caraway
and coriander seed--put in a tea-spoonful of saleratus, dissolved in
half a tea-cup of water, stir in flour till stiff enough to roll out
thin, cut it into cakes, and bake them in a slow oven.

176. _Cider Cake._

Stir together a tea-cup of butter, three of sugar--beat four eggs, and
put into the cake, together with two tea-cups of flour, and a grated
nutmeg. Dissolve a tea-spoonful of saleratus in half a tea-cup of milk,
strain it, and mix it with the above ingredients--stir in a tea-cup of
cider, and four more cups of flour.

177. _Bannock or Indian Meal Cakes._

Stir to a cream a pound and a quarter of brown sugar, a pound of
butter--beat six eggs, and mix them with the sugar and butter--add a
tea-spoonful of cinnamon or ginger--stir in a pound and three quarters
of white Indian meal, and a quarter of a pound of wheat flour, (the meal
should be sifted.) Bake it in small cups, and let it remain in them till
cold.

178. _Rich Cookies._

Rub together, till white, a tea-cup of butter, two of sugar--then stir
in a couple of beaten eggs, a little flour, grate in