Crunih or Spiee Cookies

Ingredients

• two and one-half pounds sugar
• three pounds cake crumbs
• one and one-half pounds of lard
• seven eggs
• one and one-half pints of molasses
• three ounces of soda
• five and one-half pounds of flour
• cinnamon
• vanilla
• lemon

Method

1. 1

   Roll out thick as ginger cookies, dip in fine sugar and bake at 370 degrees.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Perfection in baking (1895) by Emil Braun, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crunih or Spiee Cookies. Two and one-half pounds sugar, three pounds cake crumbs, one and one-half pounds of lard, seven eggs (or one and one-half ounces of desiccated egg food) and one and one-half pints of molasses; cinna- mon, vanilla and lemon. Then dissolve three ounces of soda in one and one-half pints of milk or water, a little vinegar and five and one- half pounds of flour. Roll out thick as ginger cookies, dip in fine sugar and bake at 370 degrees. — 70 — Bolivars. Mix two quarts molasses, one and one-half quarts water, ten ounces lard, four ounces soda, some spices, about eight pounds flour and a little salt. Roll out one-quarter of an inch thick; bake in a rather warm oven. Berkshire Cakes, One and one-half pints molasses, two ounces butter, one-half ounce soda, one-half cup milk; salt, ginger and sufficient flour to make dough stiff enough to roll out. Roll out one-quarter inch thick, lay the whole sheet upon a well-dusted pan, cut with large knife into finger shapes to be two and one-half by four inches in size after they are baked; break before they are cold; before baking, prick well with a fork. Poor Man*s Fruit Cake. Rub together one-half pound of brown sugar and three-quarters of a pound of lard; add four eggs, then one and one-half pints molasses, one pint sour milk, one ounce soda, three to three and one- half pounds flour, two pounds currants, two pounds raisins, one-half pound sliced citron and two pounds of finely sliced apples. Ginger Snaps* Two pounds of granulated sugar, two pounds of brown sugar, two and one-half quarts of New Orleans molasses and Porto Rico molasses mixed, one pint of water, two and one-half ounces of soda, one ounce of salt, three ounces of ginger, two ounces of cinnamon

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