Stack Cake

 Via Hilda Berry Davis

The house smells really good for I am cooking apples for a stack cake for friends who are visiting. I made one over the weekend, but did not have molasses and I was looking for a recipe that did. I asked my friends and got a whole slew of them. That is the old timey one that  settlers used. They had no sugar or butter. They used honey and molasses for sweets. I also read that since they had few if any hogs, they used possums for their fat. Many people dislike possums today but they were deeply valued back then. Sometimes people will argue with me that the women of today have it just as hard as they did back then. I argue right back! You don’t know how hard life can be until you skin a possum, or wash clothes on rocks or hang clothes out when your hands are freezing off. My mama did all of that! I could go on and on but you get the picture…..