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Cookies - Good Common

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 7

Makes 9 dozen, cost 36 cents, or twice as many if rolled extremely thin.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 180. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cookies— Good Common. 2 cups sugar— a pounds, I cup butter— 5^ poundj 5 or 6 eggs. I cup milk or water — ^ pmt* 4 teaspoons baking powder. 8 cups flour

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