Cookies Variation 1

Ingredients

• 4oz. of butter
• 1/2 lb. of caster sugar
• 1 table-spoonful of milk
• one beaten egg
• 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder
• 1 teacupful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, add caster sugar, milk, and beaten egg.

2. 2

   Mix baking powder with flour, sift it in with the butter, work in more flour to make a soft dough.

3. 3

   Roll out, sprinkle caster sugar on top, cut into little cakes, and bake for about ten minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 469. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 table-spoonful of milk, add it tojthe flour, with one beaten egg, and flavour to taste. Boll the dough out thick, divide into little cakes, and bake on buttered baking-sheets (see Fig. 512) for about ten minutes. (2) Cream 4oz. of butter by beating it in a dish, add |lb. of caster sugar, 1 table-spoonful of milk, and one beaten egg ; mix 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder with 1 teacupful of flour

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