American Southern

Ginger Sponge

Name: Ginger Sponge
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups molasses; 1 each sugar; 1 each butter; 5 each eggs; 2 cups sour milk; 2 tsp soda; 2 each cream of tartar; 2 each ginger; 3 each eggs; 5 cups flour; 1 each cinnamon

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 18. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

Ginger Sponge

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