Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup sour milk
• 1 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• Flour sufficient to make dough
• Season with caraway seed or nutmeg to suit the taste

Method

1. 1

   Mix thoroughly; roll very thin; bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 295. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cookies, snaps, jumbles, etc., a quick oven is the best. They are all best kept in a tin box. If they get moist by keeping, dry them out in the oven. For icing cookies, etc., see our article on "Frosting and Icing." Some people sprinkle cookies with sugar, after being rolled out, then cut them out, press a raisin in the center, and bake. For time to hake see " Loaf Cakes." ALMOND DROPS. 1 cup butter. 1 cup almonds, blanched. U cups sugar. Flour to roll and drop. 3 eggs. ANISE DROPS. 2 cups granulated sugar. 3 cups flour. 3 eggs. . 1 teaspoon anise seed. Beat the sugar and eggs well for i hour; then add the other ingredients; drop on buttered pans and bake in a moderate oven. The secret lies in beating rapidly and thoroughly. Each teaspoon is dropped separately so as to make separate cakes. SMALL CAKES 399 aiNGEK DKOPS. h cup butter. 2 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder, i c'jp molasses. 1 teaspoon ground ginger. Beat all well together, adding flour tiil stiff enough to drop from the spoon in drops the size of an eg^. Bake on tins in a moderate oven. GINGEK DROPS No. 2. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 teaspoon soda. i cup molasses. 2 teaspoons ginger. 2 eggs, well beaten. Flour to roll out. 1 tablespoon vinegar. Flavor with lemon or va- nilla. Koll out thin, cut with a small cutter and bake in a quick oven. GINGEE NUTS {Without Eggs). i cup lard. 1 cup molasses. h cup brown sugar. 1 teaspoon soda. i cup sour milk or butter- 1 teaspoon ginger, milk. Mix very soft, form into round balls like nuts, and bake in a rather quick oven. COOKIES. i cup lard. 1 cup sour milk, i cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. li cups white sugar. Flour sufficient to make dough. Season with caraway seed or nutmeg to suit the taste

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