Brandy Snaps

Ingredients

• 1 pound flour — 4 cups
• 8 ounces butter — 1 cup
• 8 ounces sugar — 1 cup
• 2 ounces ground ginger
• 1 teaspoonful soda — rounded measuft
• 1| pounds light molasses — 2 cups

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour and add ginger.

2. 2

   Mix sugar, molasses, and extract in a hole made in the flour.

3. 3

   Dissolve soda in water and add.

4. 4

   Stir together and drop batter onto baking pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 119. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brandy Snaps. 1 pound flour — 4 cups. 8 ounces butter — 1 cup 8 ounces sugar — 1 cup, 2 ounces ground ginger. Lemon extract flavor. 1 teaspoonful soda — rounded measuft. > IJ pounds light molasses — 2 cups

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