Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 lb. raisins, chopped
• 1 lb. nuts, chopped
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and drop from small spoon on buttered pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Edwardsville cook book (1906), page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DROP CAKES. Mrs. H. C. Squire. 1 cup sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. V2 cup butter. Nutmeg to flavor. 1 cup milk. Flour to stir very thick. 2 whites of eggs. Drop in small spoonfuls on a buttered tin, sprinkle tops with currants and sugar, and bake quickly. 1 teaspoon allspice. 3 eggs. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 lb. flour. CAKES. 143 GOOD COOKIES. Mrs. Geo. D. Shaffer. 2 cups sugar. 1 egg. 1 cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 cup sour cream or milk. Mix soft, roll thin; sift granulated sugar over them and gen- tly roll it in. COOKIES. Mrs. Henry C. Barnsback. 2 full cups sugar. 2 eggs. 1 cup butter and lard mixed, or 1 cup sweet milk. all lard. 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix the dough as soft as can be handled ; roll thin on well floured board, cut out, and lift to and from baking pan with broad knife. “LAPE KUCHEN.” German Christmas Cakes. Mrs. M. Y2 gallon hot molasses. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 nutmegs, grated. 6 lemon rinds, grated. 2 lbs. chopped nuts. 3 teaspoons baking powder. Flour to make stiff enough to SPONGE Mrs. Abbie L. 5 eggs, beaten separately. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1 cup sugar. Must be stiff enough to drop pan. Bake in hot oven. Roa. 1 pt. brown sugar. 1 cup lard. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 teaspoon cloves. 2 lbs. citron. roll. DROP. Greenwood. 1V2 cups flour. 1 teaspoon vanilla. from small spoon on buttered 144 THE EDWARDSVILT.E COOK BOOK. ' CREAM COOKIES. Mrs. M. Roa. 4 fresh eggs. ' times. 2 cups sugar. 2 heaping teaspoons baking 1 cup butter. powder. 4 cups flour, sifted several Cream butter, sugar and eggs until very light and smooth ; sift baking powder with flour. More than the 4 cups may be added to make the mixture right for handling. Milk or water will spoil them. SUGAR COOKIES. 1V2 cups sugar. V2 cup sour milk. 1 cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. Pinch of salt. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Flour to roll very thin. 1 egg. CRULLERS. Mrs. J. T. Crocker. 2 pints flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. ^ eggs. A little salt. 1 cup sugar. V2 cup sweet milk. IV2 teaspoons ext. lemon. 1 heaping tablespoon butter. Cream butter and sugar, add essence, beat eggs light and add ; then the milk and flour, adding enough more to roll, not too soft; roll to about 1-3 inch, cut with biscuit cutter and cut out centre. Fry in hot lard. GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKES. (Pepper Nuts). Mrs. L. Mi. Armstrong. 12 eggs. 2 lb. chopped nuts. 3 lb. sugar. 3 lb. flour. Peel of 4 lemons. 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 tablespoon cloves. 2 nutmegs. 1 teaspoon baking powder, stir- red into flour. Cut out and let lay over night. In the morning, put a drop of brandy on each cake before baking. CAKES. 145 FRIED CAKE OR CRULLERS. Mrs. Abbie L. Greenwood. 1 cup sugar. 3 good sized teaspoons baking 4 tablespoons melted lard. powder. 1 cup sour milk. 3 eggs. Mix very soft. GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKES. Lup Kuchen. Mrs. L. M. Armstrong. 1 pint brown sugar. 1 lb. citron. 2 tablespoon cinnamon. 1 tablespoon cloves. 3 heaping teaspoons baking powder. Bake immediately. CHOCOLATE Mrs. C. C. 1 cup light brown sugar. V2 cup melted butter. 1 scant teaspoon soda. V2 cup chopped raisins. V2 cup chopped nuts. Flavor with vanilla. Mix the spoon into a well greased pan V2 gallon molasses or honey; (warm it). Peel of 6 Temons, chopped fine. 2 nutmegs. Flour to stiffen. COOKIES. Corbett. 1 egg. Y2 cup sweet milk. IV2 cup flour. 1 tablespoonful melted choco- late. soda in the milk. Drop from OAT MEAL COOKIES. Mrs. Clare Prickett Jones. Mrs. S. T. Rol)inson. % cup butter. 1 cup brown sugar. 2 cups flour. % teaspoon soda in the flour. 2 cups rolled oats. % teaspoon salt. 1 cup chopped raisins. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 2 eggs. Drop small teaspoonful of dough on greased pan, and bake moderate oven. 146 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. OAT MEAL COOKIES. Mrs. C. C. Corbett. 1 cup sugar. oats). % cup butter. 2 eggs. 2 cups flour. 1 level teaspoon baking powder. V2 cup raisins, chopped fine. 1 small teaspoon soda. 2 cups oatmeal, (not rolled 1 small teaspoon cinnamon. Cream sugar and butter ; add the yolks of eggs, then the flour into which has been sifted the soda and baking powder, the cinnamon, raisins and oat meal, lastly the well beaten whites of the eggs. Roll thin on a floured board, cut and bake in well greased pan. DROP CAKES. Mrs. Henry Bickiehaupt. 3 eggs. 1 lb. raisins, chopped. 1 lb. nuts, chopped

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