Instructions: Melt shortening (Fannie says you can even use chicken fat!) and add molasses, egg (well-beaten), sifted dry ingredients, and sour milk. Beat vigorously, turn into a buttered and floured dripping pan and bake in a moderate oven (probably 350)

for 25 minutes. Remove from pan, cut in half crosswise, and put marshmallows on top of one half, layering the other half on top. Put into oven and let stand for
3 minutes. Watch carefully! (A modern oven may be hotter than a wood oven.)

Remove to serving dish, cool slightly, cut into squares and serve with sweetened whipped cream.

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