Cocoanut Cookies

Ingredients

• two cups sugar
• one cup butter
• two cups grated cocoanut
• two eggs
• one teaspoon baking powder
• Mix with enough flour to roll very thin.

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and bake in a quick oven but do not brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

o teaspoons baking powder. Bake in sheets in a rather quick oven. If you use the fresh cocoanut use two cups of it. 6. One, Two, Three, Four. One cup butter, twa cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs (using the whites only), one cup milk, one teaspoon cream tartar sifted into the flour, one-half teaspoon soda in the milk, one-half of a cocoanut, grated, and stirred in at the last. Cocoanut Cream. Three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour, two tablespoons melted butter, three table-^ spoons mil]c, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda. Filling: — One-half pint milk, one tablespoon flour, small pinch salt, three tablespoons sugar, yolk of one egg\ the white for frosting. Use shredded cocoanut in both frosting and filling, and flavor with vanilla. Cold Water. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup cold water, four cups flour, one cup each raisins and currants, three eggs, teaspoon soda, half teaspoon cream tartar, salt, teaspoon each of all kinds spice. Put all together and stir well with the hand until smooth. Composition. Two cups butter, three cups sugar, one cup milk, five cups flour, five eggs, one pound raisins,^ one nutmeg, teaspoon soda. 70 CAKE. Cookies. One-half pound butter, one-half pound ^ugar, two eggs, reserving white of one egg, scant tea- spoon soda; roll very thin, lay two or three blanched almonds on cake before baking. Wet soda in a drop of milk. Flour sufficient to roll. Rich. 2. One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one egg, flour enough to roll. 3. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one-half cup sour cream, one-third cup milk, three eggs, one tea- spoon soda, one teaspoon cream tartar. Nutmeg and lemon. Cocoanut Cookies. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, two cups grated cocoanut, two eggs, one teaspoon bak- ing powder. Mix with enough flour to roll very thin.

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