Hot Water Ginger Cakes
1½ cup molasses
¾ cup boiling water
2½ cups flour
1⅛ teaspoons soda
1½ teaspoons ginger
¾ teaspoon salt
¼ cup fat
Sift dry ingredients. Mix fat, molasses and boiling water. Add dry ingredients. Beat briskly for a few minutes, and pour into greased muffin pans. Bake twenty to thirty minutes in moderate oven.