Betsy

Ingredients

• one pound of butter
• one pound and a quarter of sugar
• four eggs
• two and a half pounds of flour
• two teaspoons of ginger
• to your taste of caraway seeds
• half a teaspoon of saleratus

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs, then flour, ginger, caraway seeds, and saleratus.

2. 2

   Roll very thin, cut in long strips, and bake until a delicate brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 186. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Betsy Cream one pound of buttar and one pound and a quarter of sugar. Add four eggs, two and a half pounds of flour, two teaspoons of ginger, to your taste of caraway seeds, and half a teaspoon of saleratus

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