Cookies

Ingredients

• One large tablespoonful of butter
• and lard
• one cupful of sugar
• nearly three cupfuls of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of Equity baking-powder
• one-half cupful of sweet milk
• one egg

Method

1. 1

   Rub together the butter, lard, sugar, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Add milk and egg, roll thin, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 150. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COOKIES — Very nice. One large tablespoonful each of butter and lard, one cupful of sugar, nearly three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonf uls of Equity baking-powder, all rubbed together, then add one-half cupful of sweet milk, one egg, roll thin and bake in a quick oven. GRAHAM CAKE. One cupful of sugar, one cupful of sour cream or milk, if you use milk, add a piece of butter the size of a walnut, one cupful of seeded and chopped raisins, two cupfuls of sifted Graham flour, one teaspoonful of soda, three eggs. Bake in a loaf. "\VHITE FRUIT CAKE. Two eggs, one cupful of sugar, one of butter, one of raisins, one of currants, three cupfuls of flour, one-half cup of sweet milk. Citron, mace and cinnamon to taste, two teaspoontuls of Equity baking-powder

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