Old Fashioned Gingerbread

Ingredients

1/2 cup Butter or Margarine, softened

1/2 cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 cup Molasses

2 1/2 cups Flour

1 1/2 teaspoons Baking soda

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Cloves

1 teaspoon Ginger

1 cup Hot water

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar, mixing well. Add egg and molasses; mix well.

Combine dry ingredients; add to the creamed mixture alternately with hot water, beginning and ending with flour mixture, and beating well after each addition.

Pour batter into a greased/floured 9 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes (test after about 25), or until cake tests done. Frost, if desired, or top with whipped cream or cool whip.