Apple Gingerbread

Ingredients

  • 1 pint molasses
  • 1 pint rich buttermilk
  • 2/3 cupful shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 quart raw sweet apples, pared and cut in long thin slips
  • 2 teaspoonfuls soda
  • 1 teaspoonful of ginger and same of cassia
  • flour to make a smooth stiff batter
  • 1/2 teaspoonful salt

Directions

Mix ingredients and bake in loaves. This will make three loaves of good cake.