Chocolate Wafers

Ingredients

• 1 cupful sugar
• 2 eggs
• 5 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• 1% teaspoonful baking soda
• 2 cupfuls flour
• ¥ teaspoonful vanilla extract
• 4 cake chocolate
• ¥% teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco and sugar together, add chocolate melted, eggs well beaten, vanilla extract, flour, salt, and soda.

2. 2

   Mix and turn out on to floured baking board.

3. 3

   Roll out thin, and cut with small cutter.

4. 4

   Lay on Criscoed tin and bake from seven to ten minutes in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 15 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Wafers 1 cupful sugar 2 eggs 5 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1% teaspoonful baking soda 2 cupfuls flour ¥ teaspoonful vanilla extract 4 cake chocolate Y% teaspoonful salt Cream Crisco and sugar together, add chocolate melted, eggs well beaten, vanilla extract, flour, salt, and soda. Mix and turn out on to floured baking board. Roll out thin, and cut with small cutter. Lay on Criscoed tin and bake from seven to ten minutes in moderate oven. Sufficient for forty-six wafers. Citron Buns 1 yeast cake 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 6 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 cupful scalded milk 34 cupful Crisco 1 egg ¥% cupful raisins 5% cupfuls flour 1% cupful chopped citron peel Y% cupful lukewarm water 1 teaspoonful salt Scald milk, add half of sugar and salt; when lukewarm add yeast dissolved in water and 1% cupfuls flour. Mix, cover, and let rise till light; then add Crisco, remainder of sugar and flour, raisins, peel, and extract. Knead lightly, cover, and let rise. Divide into small pieces, let rise on greased tins, brush over with beaten egg and bake in hot oven twenty minutes. Sufficient for twenty-two buns. Coffee Bread 34 cupful milk 1 cupful sugar Y% cupful melted Crisco 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 1% cake compressed yeast 14 cupful chopped English 1 teaspoonful salt walnut meats 2 eggs Flour _ Heat milk slightly, then add flour to make batter and yeast dissolved in little lukewarm water. Allow to rise until light, then add Crisco, eggs 99 Breads, etc. ; well beaten, sugar, lemon, salt, and enough flour to make stiff dough. Knead ten minutes and let rise until light. Place in Criscoed pan and let rise again. Spread with melted Crisco and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Bake in hot oven half an hour. Sufficient for one large loaf. Columbia Muffins 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 1% cupfuls milk 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt 1 egg 31% teaspoonfuls baking powder 3% cupfuls sifted flour Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Cream Crisco and sugar, add egg well beaten, then milk and flour mixture. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake twenty-five minutes in hot oven. Sufficient for twenty muffins. Corn Bread 1 cupful cornmeal 1 cupful sour cream 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 2 eggs 1 cupful flour Y% teaspoonful baking soda Y% cupful sugar ¥% teaspoonful salt

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