Aunt Nell’s Cookies

Name: Aunt Nell’s Cookies
Ingredients: Two cups granulated or brown sugar; a half cup butter; a half cup lard; one large cup sweet milk; a half cup cream; one even teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SO DA (or Saleratus); two and a half heaping cups flour sifted; one heaping teaspoonful cream of tartar; some nutmeg to flavor

From Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes, 1900

If flour is not sufficient, add a little more.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

AUNT NELL’S COOKIES. Two cups granulated or brown sugar, a half cup butter, a half cup lard, one large cup sweet milk, a half cup cream, one even teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SO DA (or Saleratus), two and a half heaping cups flour sifted with one heaping teaspoonful cream of tartar and some nutmeg to flavor

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