1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

2 cups flour

½ cup salted butter

½ cup molasses

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon cloves

Cream sugar and butter well.  Add eggs and beat.  Then add molasses, and remaining ingredients, alternately with buttermilk which has had the baking soda added to the milk.  Pour into a 9×13-inch pan and bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.