Spice Cake
One-half pound sugar, ½ pound lard, 2 eggs, 1 pound stale cake, ⅓ ounce soda, 1 quart molasses, 1 quart water, a few drops of cochineal, 2½ pounds flour, ⅓ ounce cream of tartar.
Take sugar and lard and mix to a cream, add eggs, next take the crumbs. Mix together and add the molasses and milk. Take the water, add the soda and mix together. Put the flour in the sieve and cream of tartar, sieve through. Mix and bake in lunch cake pans. Grease heavy. Bake in good heat, 600 degrees F. When baked and cool, ice with chocolate icing. Sold for one cent each, or six for five cents.