Brandy Snaps

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour — a pound
• 1 cup butter — ^ pound
• 1 cup sugar — ^ pound
• 2 ounces ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon soda — rounded measure
• 2 large cups common molasses — i^ pounds

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour and add the ginger.

2. 2

   Make a hole in the middle, add sugar, molasses, and extract, dissolve the soda and stir all together.

3. 3

   Drop the batter on baking pans and bake in a slack oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 280. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brandy Snaps. 'I'he name of a sort of molasses wafer, but there is no brandy about them. 4 cups flonr — a pound. I cup butter — ^ pound. 1 cup sugar — ^ pound. 2 ounces ground ginger. Lemon extract to flavor. 1 teaspoon soda — rounded measure. 2 large cups common molasses — i^ pounds

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