Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• three cups of sugar
• two cups of butter
• four eggs
• one cup of milk
• a pinch of salt
• one-half teaspoonful of baking powder
• seven cups of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add eggs, milk, and salt.

2. 2

   Mix baking powder with flour and stir in.

3. 3

   Roll thin, cut shapes, and bake in a quick oven.

4. 4

   Sprinkle with sugar while warm.

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 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup of milk, one well-beaten egg^ a pinch of salt 844 MBS. SEELT'a COOK BOOK sif ted wìth two teaspoonf uls of baking powder and two capa of floar. Mix ali thoroughly and then stir in one-half cup of currants which bave been mixed with a little floar, just enough to keep them from sinking to the bottoni of the cake. Pour into a well-buttered pan, sprinkle the top with ground cinna- mon, powdered sugar, and small pieces of batter. Bake in moderate oven three-quarters of an hour. Westphalian Ooflbe or Batter Oaka Take three pounds of flonr, one pound of butter, four tea- cupe of milk, three eggs, three-quarters of a pound of raisins, one-quarter of a pound of sugar, three ounces of yeast, as much citron as you wish (or it may be omitted), and eight or ten cardamom seeds well pulverized. The sugar, butter, milk, and flour should be stirred thoroughly together. The eggs may be omitted if wished. The yeast should be added bef ore the fruit. It will probably take three or four hours to rise. When ready for baking, pour over the cake one-quarter of the butter, then a quarter of a pound of sugar, two ounces of sweet almonds chopped fine, and strew whatever spice is pleasing — cinnamon is commonly used. The cake is baked in a round (snake) form, on a large tin, or in a pan with the centre cut out, to let the beat cook it thor- oughly. New Bngland Oaraway Oakes Take one pound of flour, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, a glass of rose water, four eggs, half a teacup of caraway seeds. Rub the materials well together and beat up. Drop the cakes from a spoon on tin sheets and bake them brown in a rather slow oven. Twenty minutes or half an hour is enough to bake them. CAKE8, FILLINQS^ AND ICING8 846 (Jarfleld Oookies One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one-third of a oup of sour milk, two eggs, one teaspoonf ul of soda, one-half of a nut- meg grated, flour enough to roU the cookies soft and thin. Cream the butter and sugar, add the milk, then the eggs, having first beaten in the soda, dissolved in a little water, the grated nutmeg, and lastlj the flour. Tum the mixture on a board lightly sprinkled with flour, roll until very thin, and cut the desired shape and size. Place in slightlj greased pan and bake in quick oven. Inanguration Ck>okie8 Stir to a cream three-quarters of a pound of white pow- dered sugar and half a pound of butter. Add siz eggs, stir- ring them in gently, one at a time. Continue the gentle stirring till a pound of flour, a grated nutmeg, four ounces of chopped orange peel, and a glass of orange juice are well mixed in. Have half a pound of blanched almonds chopped rather fine. Drop the dough from a tablespoon upon buttered paper. Sprinkle the chopped almonds upon the little rounds and bake a delicate brown. When the cookies are cold, slip them from the paper, put together with a fruit jam or icing, and twist them in delicate lace papers. Molasses Oookies Boil one cup of molasses, mix it with two eggs, one-half a teaspoonf ul of baking soda dissolved in a little boiling water, — use the cup the molasses was in, — and then stir in one pound of sifted flour. Roll very thin, cut the desired size and shape, and bake in a quick oven. Bufirar Oookies Cream three cups of sugar with two cups of butter, add four eggs, one cup of milk, and a pinch of salt. Mix one-half 846 MR8. SEELY'a COOK BOOK teaspoonful of baking powder with seven cupe of flour

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