Cookies

Ingredients

• One coffee cup granulated sugar
• ^ cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of milk
• 2 light teaspoons baking powder
• flour enough for a dough

Method

1. 1

   Roll tolerably thin, cut with cutter and bake in oven about 10 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cookies. Two and one-half cups of sugar, 1 cup lard and butter mixed, ] 1 eggy 1 pint of sweet milk, 2 ounces carbonate ammonia, flavor with lemon extract, flour enough for a tolerably stiff dough. Out with cutter and bake quickly. One-Egg Cake. Half cup of butter, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 egg, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 light teaspoons bakiQg powder. Mix well and bake in a loaf or in muffin rings. Ice with white icing. Date Cake. One-fourth pound of dates, 1 cup of seeded raisins, 2^ cups of KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 253 flour, % cup butter, % tumbler currant or blackberry jelly, 1 des- sertspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, % nutmeg grated, 1% cups brown sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water. Seed dates and chop a little, flour fruit and add just before putting in soda. Put in greased pan and bake in a slow oven 1^ hours. Marshmallow Cake. Three cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 5 cups flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, whites of 8 eggs, 1 dessertspoon of vanilla. Cream butter and sugar. Have whites beaten to a froth, add half of them to butter and sugar, with half of flour, milk, % baking powder and vanilla ; continue beating hard and add rest of flour and eggs ; stir well. Bake in 2 square jelly cake tins. Ice when cold. Marshmallow Cake. One cup of butter, 2% cups granulated sugar, 4^4 cups flour, 1 cup of water, whites of 8 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tea* spoon vanilla. Mix as in preceding recipe. Sunshine Cake. One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1-3 tea- spoon cream of tartar, whites of 7 eggs, yolks of 5 eggs. Sift flour and sugar, whip whites stiff, add cream of tartar and sugar to the whites and beat hard; then yolks and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in flour lightly. Put in greased mold and bake in a slow oven. Nut Cake. r One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 2-3 cup milk, 3 cups flour, yolks of 8 eggs, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, y^ teaspoon soda, 1 cup nuts. Sift flour once, add soda and sift 3 times. Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs beaten light ana cream of tartar. Beat well, add milk, then flour, and stir very hard. Lemon Cake. Three coffee cups granulated sugar, 4 cups sifted flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 5 eggs, 1 even teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, juice and grated peel of 1 lemon added last. Bake in tins. When cold cut into squares and ice with lemon icing. Fruit Cake. One cup granulated sugar, % cup of butter, 1% cups flour, 1 cup seeded raisins, % cup sherry wine, 2 eggs, % teaspoon of soda. Mix and bake in 3 layers in jelly tins. Cover with white icing. White Cake. « Whites of 12 eggs, 3 large coffee cups of granulated sugar, 1 cup of butter, 4 heaping cups of flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking 254 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup of water. Cream butter, add sugar, with flour and eggs alternately, vanilla, then add baking powder sifted in with a cup of the flour. Bake in 4 layers of jelly tins and ice, or bake in mold or muffin rings and cover with white icing. Oocoanut Cakes. The grated meat of 1 cocoanut, white of 1 egg, y^, cup of flour, the same amount of sugar as there is of cocoanut. Mix, shape in cakes and bake 20 minutes. Cookies. One coffee cup granulated sugar, ^ cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 table- spoon of milk, 2 light teaspoons baking powder, flour enough for a dough

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