Cheap Cookies

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• one cup of brown sugar
• one teaspoonful of soda
• three eggs
• flour enough to roll out thin

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and roll out thin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHEAP COOKIES. One cup of butter, one cup of brown sugar, one tea- spoonful of soda, three eggs, flour enough to roll out thin. Piz CREAM PUFES. Five eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one and a-half cups each of sugar and sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder in the flour; bake in teacups, filling about half full. The cream is prepared by placing a small tin pail containing a pint of sweet milk in a kettle of boiling ~ ‘ - a " ‘ + a 2 SG me i 2 aN sel fan ~ ie ny ! iva es 196 -- DORA'S COOK. BOOK. water ; beat the whites and yolks of two eggs separately ; stir in milk while boiling, a half cup sugar, a large table- spoon corn-starch dissolved in a little sweet milk, then the beaten yolks, and a piece of butter the’size of an egg ; flavor with lemon. When done cut the cakes open, put in a spoonful of the cream, place together again, roll in the whites, and then in coarse white sugar. SNOWBALLS. Pour half a pint of boiling water over a cup butter, and while hot stir in two cups flour. When the whole is very smooth and thoroughly scalded, set away to cool. When cold break in five eggs, stir until perfectly mixed, then add one-fourth teaspoon soda, butter a pan, drop in the mixture, a teaspoon in a place, and bake in a quick oven. When the cakes are done they will be hollow, and the top must be sliced off, the inside filled with cream, and the top replaced. CREAM FOR INSIDE. One pint rich milk, half cup flour, one cup sugar, and two eggs, stirred together and heated till of the consist- ency of cream; flavor with vanilla. * CRULLIES. T'wo cups sour cream, one cup sugar, two eggs, one tea- spoon soda, one nutmeg. Cut in strips and fry in hot — ~~ dard, | — CARES es 197 JELLY CAKE. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four eggs, Che cups flour, one-half cup sour milk, and one teaspoonful of soda

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.