Ginger Cake
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark molasses
Lard, size of an egg
1 egg
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 scant teaspoon soda
1 scant teaspoon ginger
1 large cup of flour
3/4 cup boiling water
Add melted lard to sugar, then molasses and soda and beaten egg
Sift flour, salt and ginger and add the boiling water last
Bake in moderate oven about 25 to 30 minutes
The mixture before baking is very thing.
From Chicago Evening American Cookbook 1932