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Cookies
From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905
Serves 2
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Cookies. — One cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of sugar, two-thirds cupful of butter, one-half cupful of water, one egg, two teaspoonfuls of saleratus, one-half teaspoonful of alum, one tea- spoonful of ginger, flour enough to roll out soft. Bake quick. cookie-pans. Sponge Gingerbread. — Sift two teaspoonfuls of soda and a dessert-spoonful of ginger, in two cupfuls of molasses. Stir thoroughly, and add four well-beaten eggs, one cupful of butter, melted, one cupful of sour milk or buttermilk, in which is dissolved one teaspoonful of soda. Add flour until the whole is of the consistency of a pretty thick batter. Make into two loaves and bake. Soft Gingerbread. — Take one cupful of molasses, one cuj^ful of sugar, one cupful of sour milk, half a cupful of butter, five cujofuls of sifted flour, and some- what more than half a teaspoonful of soda. Melt the butter in the molasses and sugar, with the soda, add the ginger, and, if you like, a little cloves, the sour milk and flour. The cake should be just stiff enough (a thick batter) to rise nicely in baking and not fall afterwards. Ginger Cake. — Two cupfuls molasses, one cupful butter, one and a half cup- fuls sour milk, three and a half cupfuls flour, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls saleratus, one tablespoonful ginger, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful cloves. Cookies. — One cupful of white sugar, rolled fine, and mixed with a half-cupful of butter; a half cupful of sour cream, mixed with a half teaspoonful saleratus. Add two eggs thoroughly beaten. Season with caraway-seeds or nutmeg.
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