Mulatto Ginger Cake

The Picayune explains that Estomac Mulatre, which appears on the menu of the New Orleans Press Club banquet of 1898, was a folk food sold “by the old darkies around New Orleans” and sometimes called “stage planks,” which it resembled. Their virtue was economy and the historically curious can taste them by combining one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, half cup lard, three cups flour, one teaspoon baking soda, and one tablespoon powdered ginger.

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