Cooky Delights

Ingredients

• % cupful shortening
• i/4 teaspoonful salt
• 1 cupful sugar
• 1 tablespoonful milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 cupfuls flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 cupful raisins
• grated rind of 1 orange
• %: teaspoonful nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream the shortening and add the sugar.

2. 2

   Beat until light and creamy.

3. 3

   Add the well beaten eggs.

4. 4

   Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the sugar and shortening.

5. 5

   Stir in the raisins, grated orange peel or nutmeg and the milk.

6. 6

   If the mixture is not thick enough to roll, add more flour.

7. 7

   Roll very thin, cut and bake in a hot oven from 10 to 15 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 18 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cooky Delights % cupful shortening i/4 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sugar 1 tablespoonful milk 2 eggs grated rind of 1 orange or 2 cupfuls flour %: teaspoonful nutmeg 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 cupful raisins

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