Cookies

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• 2 small cups of sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 4 tablespoons milk
• 2 teaspoons cream tartar
• 1 tea- spoon soda
• 4 a nutmeg grated
• flour to roll

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COOKIES.—One cup white sugar, $ cup butter, $ teaspoon soda, dissolved in $ cup of hot water, 2 cups of rolled oats, 1 cup flour. Cream the butter and sugar, dissolve the soda in the boiling water, pour the water over the oatmeal, then add flour. Let it cool, then roll out like cookies. Mrs. 8. LOUNT. LAYER CAKE.—One cup of sugar, 3. tablespoons butter, 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons of milk, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 14 cups flour. Mix butter and sugar to a cream, then add your eggs well beaten, and milk, then the flour, and beat well before putting the baking powder in. Bake in a pretty hot oven. Miss BEALL. HICKORY NUT CAKE.—One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour sifted, 2 teaspoons baking powder, whites of 4 eggs well beaten, } teaspoon almond flavoring, 1 cup chopped dates, 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or hickory nuts). Bake in a square pan from 2 to 34 inches deep. Miss BEALL. FRUIT CAKE—Two and a quarter pounds raisins half seedless, 2} pounds currants, } pound mixed peel, ? pound chopped figs, # pound chopped dates, # pound blanch- ed almonds, 14 pounds brown sugar, 14 pounds butter, 1} pounds flour, 14 dozen eggs, 14 teaspoons cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, | grated lemon, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 glass brandy. Mrs. JAMES Hoae. WHITE COOKIES.—Three eggs, 14 cups sugar, 14 cups butter, $ cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream 144 CAKES, tartar. Cream butter and sugar together, beat eggs well ‘and add to butter and sugar. Put soda and cream tartar with the milk and pour over the butter, ete. Then add flour till stiff enough to roll out nicely; flour your board pretty well when rolling out. Butter your pans (or lard or dripping will do). A quick oven is required to make them nice. Mrs. Harrison. BREAKFAST CAKE.—Take 1 pint bread sponge, knead into it 2 tablespoons butter, $ cup sugar, and | tea- spoon cinnamon or twice as much vanilla or lemon extract. Roll into a sheet 2 inches thick. Moisten the top with sweet milk to which has been added a little sugar. Let it rise 2 hours and bake in a moderate oven. WALNUT CAKE.—Half cup butter (boiling), 2 eggs, 1 cup white sugar, } cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 14 cups flour, $ cup walnuts chopped fine. COCOANUT CAKE.—CGrate finely 2 gcod fresh cocoa- nuts and mix the pulp with an equal weight of pounded loaf sugar, 4 teacup of ground rice and 3 eggs. Stir this all well together with a fork, drop it in little heaps on a baking sheet and bake. Mrs. BoyYeEr. SEED CAKE—One good cup brown sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, $ cup lard and butter mixed, 2 teaspoons caraway seeds, more if you please. M. A. ROGERSON. SPONGE CAKE.—Two eggs well beaten together, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup four, 1 teaspoon baking powder, $ cup (small) boiling water. Mrs. C. H. Ross. COOKIKS.—-Four eggs, 2 small cups of sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 tablespoons milk, 2 teaspoons cream tartar, 1 tea- CAKES. 145 spoon soda, 4 a nutmeg grated. a few drops vanilla, flour to roll. Mrs. C. H. Ross. GINGER SNAPS.—One cup molasses, 1 cup sugar, 1 small cup butter, 1 teaspoon soda, $ cup water, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 4 teaspoon cloves, flour to roll. Mrs. C. H. Ross. PLAIN LUNCHEON.— Quarter pound butter, 2 ounces dripping, 3 eggs well beaten, + pound moist sugar, + pound currants, } pound Sultanas, 2 ounces candied peel, ? pound flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Melt butter and dripping in oven, let stand till cool, then add eggs, sugar, currants, Sultanas and candied peel (cut up). Have ready in basin the flour mixed with baking powder; add this gradually to other ingredients. Mrs. T. E. BARTLEY. BUTTERMILK CAKE.—One and one-half cups sugar, 4 cup butter, 3 eggs, $ cup buttermilk, 2 cups flour, } tea- spoon soda

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