Depression Era Syrup Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup crisco
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup blackstrap molasses
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Recipe

• 1 cream crisco, sugar and eggs, add sorgum. mix well baking soda and buttermilk together. alternate flour and buttermilk/ baking soda mix. beat together well.
• 2 best baked in a bundt pan. bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes to an hour. watch cake closely, it will rise very high and then fall. when it falls it is done, remove from oven and cool in pan.