Boston Tea Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 teacup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon soda
• 3 teacups sugar
• Spice to taste
• 1/2 cup sour milk
• Flour enough to roll out rather stiff
• 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and roll out.

2. 2

   Cut into shapes and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 296. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup sour milk, i cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. li cups white sugar. Flour sufficient to make dough. Season with caraway seed or nutmeg to suit the taste. Mix thoroughly; roll very thin; bake quickly. BOSTON TEA COOKIES. 1 teacup butter. ^ teaspoon soda. 3 teacups sugar. Spice to taste. h cup sour milk. Flour enough to roll out 3 eggs. rather stiff. 400 SMALL CAKES CINNAMON COOKIES. 1 cup butter, heaped. 3 eggs. 2 cups brown sugar, heaped. Flour to roll out; cut in small cakes, and sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar just before baking. COCOANUT COOKIES, i cup butter. i teaspoon soda in a little 1 cup sugar. water. 1 egg. h cocoanut (grated). Flpur enough to roil. CREAM COOKIES {Extra). \h cups butter. Flour to roll soft. H cups sugar. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup thin sweet cream. Sprinkle with sugar and 1 egg. cut. CREAM COOKIES No. 2. 1 cup thick sour cream. h teaspoon soda. 1 cup sugar. Flavor with lemon. A pinch of salt. Mix with flour enough to roll; after they are rolled sprinkle with granulated sugar and just pass the roll- ing pin over again so it will not dust off. GINGER COOKIES. I cup butter. 2 teaspoons soda

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