Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

• three-fourths cake baker's chocolate
• one scant cup butter
• two cups sugar
• one-half cup cold water
• two eggs
• one teaspoon soda
• one-half teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix chocolate, butter, sugar, water, and eggs.

2. 2

   Add soda dissolved in hot water and enough flour to roll as soft as can be handled.

3. 3

   Frost with beaten egg white and sugar, adding vanilla, when warm.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES. Mrs. M. E. Kloeckner, Pasadena, Cal.— Three-fourths cake baker's chocolate, grated; one scant cup butter, two cups sugar, one-half cup cold water, two eggs or three if frosting is de- sired, leaving out the white of one; one tea- COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. 59 spoon soda dissolved in hot water, one-half teaspoon vanilla; flour to roll as soft as can be handled. Have white of egg beaten stiff with sugar, add little vanilla and frost when warm. Cut rather small for special occasions, and sprinkle finely-chopped English walnuts on top of frosting. NO. 19. BOSTON COOKIES. E. A. An- thony, 819 W. Adams St.— Cream one cup of butter and add gradually one and one-half cups sugar and three eggs well beaten, and one teaspoon soda

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