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Cookies

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 24

These can be made with sour milk or cream instead of butter.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 201. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COOKIES. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, a small teacupful of sweet milk, half a grated nutmeg and flve cups of sifted flour, in which there has been sifted with it two teaspoonfuls of baking powder

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