Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 oz. butter
• J nutmeg
• 1 gill milk
• Flour enough to make a sufficiently stiff paste

Method

1. 1

   Beat egg and sugar to cream.

2. 2

   Work butter soft, beat it with egg and sugar.

3. 3

   Grate in nutmeg, add milk and prepared flour enough to make a stiff paste to roll out, about a pound.

4. 4

   Roll 0.5 inch thick; cut out with cutter, and lay on a floured baking pan, and bake for 12 minutes in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cookies. Beat 1 egg and 1 cup sugar to cream. Work 2 oz. butter soft, and beat it with egg and sugar. Grate in J nutmeg, add 1 gill milk and prepared flour enough to make a sufficiently stiff paste

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