Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

• ^ cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 Qgg
• \ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter; add remaining ingredients.

2. 2

   Chill, roll, and shape.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^ cup butter 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 squares Lowney's Premium 2 cups flour and enough more flour Chocolate, grated to roll out. 1 tablespoon milk Mix in the order given, toss on to a floured board, and roll to an inch in thickness. Cut out with a doughnut cutter. Just before putting into the oven, dust over with granulated sugar and bake ten minutes. See colored illus- tration, Plate XIII, ojDposite. Chocolate Walnut Wafers I cup butter ^ cup milk 1 cup powdered sugar 1 cup flour 2 squares Lowney's Premium ^ teaspoon vanilla Chocolate, grated 1 cup chopped walnuts ^ teaspoon salt Cream butter ; add dry ingredients, milk and flavoring. Spread on inverted pans which have been well buttered. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake in moderate oven. Crease immediately on removing from oven. See colored illustration, Plate XIV, opposite. CHOCOLATE JUMBLES Plate XIII. For Recipe see page 262 CHOCOLATE WALNUT WAFERS Plate XIV. For Recipe see page 262 LOWNEY'S CHOCOLATE HERMITS Plate XV. For Recipe see page 263 CHOCOLATE SWEDISH MERINGUES Plate XVI. For Recipe see page 263 CAKE AND COOKIES; FBOSTINGS AND FILLINGS 263 Lowney's Chocolate Hermits ^ cup butter 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 2 eggs \ cup Lowney's Always Ready ^ cup raisins seeded Chocolate Powder I teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons hot water 1 teaspoon cinnamon Cream butter ; acid sugar, eggs, raisins, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, chocolate melted in water, salt and cinnamon. Drop from a teaspoon on to a but- tered baking sheet, put a raisin in the center of each her- mit, and bake in a moderate oven. See colored illustra- tion, Plate XV, opposite. Chocolate Swedish Meringues 5 egg whites I cup Lowney's Cocoa I teaspoon cream of tartar | cup flour 1 cup sugar ^ teaspoon vanilla Beat the whites of eggs until foamy; add cream of tartar, sugar and cocoa. Continue beating until spoon will stand up in mixture ; add vanilla and fold in the flour. Bake in buttered shallow pans in a moderate oven about twenty minutes. Put cakes together with following filling, and decorate top with filling and candied fruit and nuts. Filling Melt one half pound marshmallows. Cook one cup sugar and one third cup boiling water until, when dropped from tip of a spoon, a thread is formed. Pour slowly on to melted marshmallows, add one half teaspoon vanilla, and beat until thick enough to spread. Put between and on top of cakes. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, raisins, cherries and angelica. This may be made in one large cake or cut in small ones the shape of dominoes and decorated in the same way. See colored illustration, Plate XVI, opposite. 264 lowney's cook book Cornucopias Shape wafers as soon as taken from the oven. Fill with whipped cream, or cream fillings of various flavors. Chocolate Dominoes I cup chopped walnut meats 2 squares Lowney's Premium Choc- I cup choi^ped figs elate, melted \ cup ahiiond paste \ teaspoon salt grated rind of orange orange juice sugar Mix the ingredients with enough orange juice to make the mixture of the consistency to spread. Knead on a sugared board. Cut in shape of dominoes, coat with melted chocolate, and decorate with pieces of almonds. Chocolate Angelettes 4 egg whites 4 tablespoons Lowney's Always \ teaspoon cream of tartar Ready Chocolate Powder \ cup sugar \ cup flour \ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla confectioners' sugar Beat whites ; add cream of tartar and sugar, and con- tinue beating. Cut and fold in salt, chocolate, flour. Flavor and drop by spoonfuls on to a buttered sheet ; sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Chocolate Cookies \ cup butter 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 Qgg \ teaspoon salt 3 squares Lowney's Premium 4 tablespoons milk

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