Cookies

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups butter
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• Flour to roll

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients well; then add flour and roll very thin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COOKIES FOR SMALL CHILDREN. Mrs. W. A. Richardson. 1 egg. 1 level teaspoon soda. 1 teacup very rich sour cream. 1 cup sugar. Flavor with nutmeg. A pinch of salt. Use enough whole wheat or graham flour to make soft dough. WALNUT COOKIES. Miss Katherine Pogue. 1 cup chopped walnuts. 1 cup sugar. 1 egg, well beaten. 2 tablespoons milk. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Flour to roll very thin. Brush with white of egg and sprinkle with powdered sugar while warm. 148 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. James Timnell. % cup sugar. 2 eggs. % cup milk. teaspoon salt, teaspoon cinnamon or nut- 1 teaspoon butter, meg. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Melt butter, add sugar, add beaten yolks, then milk, flour and baking powder ; the well beaten whites last. Flour enough to roll out, not more flour than can help. DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. R. C. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup clabber milk. 1 level teaspoon soda. 1 level teaspoon salt. y^ teaspoon nutmeg. Barnett. 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder. Butter, size of hickory nut. Flour to make dough like bis- cuit. DOUGHNUTS. Mrs. J. G. Delicate. % cup butter. 1 cup sugar. ly^ pints flour. 1 egg. iy2 cups milk. iy2 teaspoons baking powder. Little nutmeg. Rub butter, sugar and egg together, sift flour and baking powder together, add to butter, milk, etc. ; mix into soft dough, roll to 54 inch in thickness ; cut with a biscuit cutter and fry to a light brown in plenty of hot lard. When done dredge with powdered sugar. [ COOKIES. Mrs. Cullens. 4 eggs. 2 cups sugar. 2 cups butter. 3 teaspoons baking powder

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