Coffee Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• shortening (butter and lard mixed)
• cold strong coffee
• molasses
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons soda
• 14 teaspoon salt
• a cup of flour

Method

1. 1

   Sift all dry ingredients together, then add to the mixture of sugar, shortening, coffee, and molasses.

2. 2

   Add enough more flour to roll.

3. 3

   Bake in a hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Coffee Cookies. 1 cup each of sugar, shortening (butter and lard mixed), cold strong coffee, and molasses, 1 teaspoon each of | cream of tartar, cloves and cinnamon, 2 teaspoons soda, 14 tea- spoon salt, all sifted with a cup of flour, add to above mixture with enough more flour to roll. Bake in hot oven. These are fine. MRS. SAM LEWIS. Filled Cookies. 1 cup sugar, 14 cup shortening, 1 egg, 14 cup milk, 214 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon. Roll thin, put cookies in pan, then put teaspoon of the following filling on each. Place another cookie carefully on top. Filling For Cookies—1 cup chopped raisins, 14 cup sugar, 14 cup water, 1 teaspoon flour. Cook until thick. . MRS. WALTER CHRISTENSEN. Lace Cookies. 214 cups (heaping) rolled oats, 2 eggs, 2 table- spoons butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Make balls about the size of a walnut, with hands wet. Space two inches apart in the pan and bake. MRS. ©. H STEVENSON. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 level teaspoon nutmeg, 2 level teaspoons baking pow- der. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs well beaten, then milk, nutmeg and baking powder sifted with enough flour to handle well. Fry in grease not too hot.” ait MRS. BEN BEAN. Fruit Cookies. Yolks of 2 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 14 cup butter, '% cup lard, 14 cup molasses, 2 teaspoons soda in cup hot water, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup nuts, 1 teaspoon each of ginger, cloves and cinna- mon. MRS. A. C. BIDDLE. flour and CARBON COUNTY COOK BOOK 25 Very Nice Cookies. 114, cups granuliuted sugar, 14 cup butter or lard (if lard is used add small pinch of salt), 2 eggs, 3 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, two thirds cup milk, 3 tea- spoons cocoa, vanilla flavoring. Cream sugar and butter, add well beaten eggs and flavoring. Sift flour and baking powder ‘together, and add a little at a time alternately with milk. Now add cocoa which should be dissolved in a little warm water, also flour t> make a soft dough. Roll thin and bake in a quick oven. A good icing makes these more delicious. Use powdered sugar dissolved in enough milk to spread easily. Flavor and ice cookies. MRS. GEORGE MORGAN. Frosted Creams. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup lard, 1 cup sour milk, 3 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cin- namon, yolks of 3 eggs. Flour to make stiff enough to spread with knife. Use whites of eggs with 114 cups sugar for boiled frosting. MRS. J. B. MIDDLETON. Oatmeal Cockies. 1 cup lard and butter mixed, 114 cups gran- ulated sugar, 34, cup thick sour milk, 1 cup raisins chopped, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, 3 eggs, 1 rounding teaspoon soda, 14 tea- spoon salt, 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon. Drop from spoon. MRS. J. J. WEIGMANN. MRS. F. L. BUCKIO. Oatmeal Cakes. 2 cups sugar, 2 cups lard creamed, 1 lb. rais- ins, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 glass milk, 1 teaspoon soda, pinch of salt, 4 cups flour, 4 cups dry oatmeal. Cream sugar and lard, mix soda with flour. Drop in pan with a spoon and bake 20 minutes. Walnuts added make them very nice. MRS. B. R. McDONALD. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 level teaspoon nutmeg, 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs well beaten, then milk, nutmeg and baking powder sifted with enough flour to handle well. Fry in grease not too hot at first. MRS. B. R. DEEM. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 14 cup sour cream and 114 cups buttermilk mixed, 1 level teaspoon soda, lemon extract or nutmeg for flavoring. Use enough flour to make a soft dough that can be handled. Cut and fry in hot lard. MRS. CHARLES FAUSETT. Oatmeal Cookies. 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup boiling lard, 3 eggs, 1 level teaspoon soda in 14 cup water, 1 level teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, 14 teaspoon salt

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