Anise Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 lb sugar (scant)
• 1 tablesp butter
• 3 or 4 eggs
• %' <5up almonds, blanched and chopped
• Yz teasp anise seed
• i flour
• 1 teasp baking powder
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   To sugar add butter, eggs, chopped almonds, anise seed, and flour to make a dough stiff enough to knead, sifted with baking powder and salt.

2. 2

   Form into a loaf about 4 inches wide and 1 inch thick, let stand overnight, and in the morning cut into slices and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Anise Cookies j To 1 lb sugar (scant) add 1 tablesp butter, 3 or 4 eggs, %' \ <5up almonds, blanched and chopped, Yz teasp anise seed, and i flour to make a dough stiff enough to knead, sifted with 1 ] teasp baking powder and a little salt. Form in a loaf about 4 : inches wide and 1 Inch thick, let stand over night, and in the | morning cut up in slices and bake. — [A. H., Wis. ] Cocoanut Cookies Beat 2 eggs until light, add gradually 1 cup sugar, ^ cup i grated or dessicated cocoanut, 1 cup thick, sweet cream, and j 3 cups flour sifted with 3 level teasp baking powder and 1 i teasp salt. Roll to % inch thick, sprinkle with some cocoanut I and then roll down to % inch thick, and cut out and bake. — < ; [Mrs. C. J. C, Wis. ; Buttermilk Cookies (No eggs) i Cream scant % cup lard with 1 cup sugar, add 1 cup butter- i milk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, 2 teasp lemon or vanilla \ extract, salt to taste and flour to stiffen. Roll out quite thick, j cut, and bake in a quick oven. — [Mrs. J. H. W., Me. j Wheat Cookies (No eggs) ] Cream V2 cup butter with 2 scant cups sugar, add 1 teasp ] soda dissolved in V2 cup hot water, then add 2 cups crushed j (steamed) wheat. Roll thin like ginger snaps, and bake in j moderate oven. Rolled oats may be substituted for the wheat. ' [CM., Pa. Walnut Cookies Cream ^^ cup butter with 1 cup sugar, add 1 egg, ^ cup ; milk, 1 cup walnut meats cut fine, 1 teasp vanilla, and 1 teasp j baking powder mixed with flour enough to make a stiff drop I batter. Drop in little cakes on greased tins. — [Mrs. R. C, | . Mass. I Peanut Cookies j Cream 4 tablesp butter with ^ cup sugar, add 2 eggs, 4 \ tablesp milk, 1 teasp lemon extract, a little salt, and 1 cup I i OATMEAL COOKIES AND MACAROONS 59 flour sifted withi 2 teasp baking powder. Lastly add 1 cup chopped peanuts. Drop on buttered tins by tablespoonsful, and bake in a moderate oven. This makes about a dozen <;ookies.— [E. H., Wash. Oatmeal Jelly Cookies Cream 1 cup butter and 1 cup lard with 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar, add 8 tablesp hot water, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, then stir in 6 cups oatmeal (3 put through the meat chopper — fine cut), and lastly add 2 cups flour. Roll, cut and spread with the following filling and fold over: Fill- iug — To 1 lb seeded and chopped raisins add 1 cup sugar and a little water and boil until the consistency of jelly. — [Mrs. F. W. R., Mich. Oatmeal Nut Ck>okies Cream scant % cup butter, add gradually 1 cup light brown sugar, then 2 well-beaten eggs, and 4 tablesp sweet milk. Next stir in 2 cups rolled oats, and when these are well mois- tened, add 1 cup flour sifted with 1 level teasp each soda and salt, also cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to taste. Lastly add 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins and % cup chopped nut meats dredged with flour. Drop by teaspoonsful on buttered tins far enough apart so they will not crowd and run together. If the batter does not seem stiff enough, add more flour. — £Mrs. J. A. W., Mo. Oatmeal Cookies Cream 1 cup butter and lard mixed, with 1% cups sugar, add 3 eggs, % cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, sifted with a little salt and 1 heap- ing teasp cinnamon. Lastly mix in 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins. Drop by spoonsful on buttered tins, and bake in a moderate oven. — [Mrs. M. D. M., Wash. Oatmeal Macaroons Beat 2 eggs light, add I cup sugar, 1 teasp vanilla, 2i^ cups rolled (steamed) oats, 1 teasp baking powder

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