MOLASSES DROP CAKES
Natalie H. Johnson

1/2 c. butter or lard
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. molasses
2 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cassia (cinnamon)
1 tsp. soda
1 egg beaten in last
1/2 c. boining water

Cream together butter, sugar and molasses.  Mix flour, soda, ginger and cassia together.  Add to first mixture and blend with a spoon as much as possible.  Add boiling water, and last, add a beaten egg.  Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet.  Bake in 350 oven for 10 minutes.

Said Natalie:  This recipe is so old I only had the ingredients and a few notations added.  Therefore, I made up my own directions and they came out very good when I made them.

My great grandmother, Annette Leavitt Senter (1842-1916), had this recipe and it would have been used about the time she was married in 1863.  However, this could have been handed down from her mother.