Everlasting Cookies

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• one cup of butter
• three-fourths of sweet milk
• two teaspoons baking powder
• milk and flour to make a soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar together, then add eggs, milk, and flour to make a soft dough.

2. 2

   Roll thin, sprinkle sugar over the top, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 142. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EVEELASTING COOKIES. Mrs. John Edwards, Rockford. Two cups sugar, one of butter, three-fourths of sweet 362 THE HOME COOK BOOK. milk, two teaspoons baking powder ; season to taste ; rub butter and sugar together; then add two eggs, milk and flour to make a soft dough; roll thin, sprinkle a little* sugar over the top, and bake in quick oven. COOKIES. Mrs. Russell. One cup butter, two of sugar, one of sour cream, one teaspoon soda, two of cream tartar, three eggs, three tablespoons caraway seed, a little nutmeg, flour enough to form a soft dough; roll out thin and bake in a qaich oven. COOKIES. Mrs. Solomon Thatcher, Sr. Two cups of sugar, one of butter, one of sour cream, three eggs, beat separately, one teaspoon of soda ; beat cream and yolks well together, then mix soft and roll out very thick ; bake in a quick oven. COOKIES. Virginia West, Evanston. Two eggs, two teacups sugar, one teacup butter, one teacup milk, one nutmeg, one teaspoon cream tartar, one- half teaspoon soda ; flour to roll. WHIG JUMBLES. Mrs. W. H. Ovington. One teacup and a half of butter; three teacups of sugar, one cup of sour cream, four eggs, one teaspoon of VALUABLE KECIPES. 363 soda dissolved in it, six cups of flour, nutmeg ; drop in heaping teaspoons on buttered paper in pans. JUMBLES. Mrs. W. H. Ovington. One pound of butter, one pound of sugar, six eggs, grated peel of a fresh lemon, flour suflicient to make a soft dough ; put in teaspoons in papered pans ; on top of each cake put a blanched almond, and some coarse lumps of crushed sugar before baking. EICH JUMBLES. Mrs. Kate Johnson. One-half pound butter, one-half pound sugar, two eggs well beaten, three-quarters pound flour ; have plenty of rolled sugar on the board, and work little lumps of the dough (which is very soft) in it; make into little rings, and turn them over into buttered pans and bake with care ; they will keep for two or three months. EXCELLENT JUMBLES. Mrs. J. H. Brown. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup cream, one teaspoon soda, one egg, a little bit of nutmeg, flour enough to stifl'en it so as to bake in rings ; bake quickly. COCOANUT JUMBLES. Mrs. F. Two cups of sugar, one of butter, two eggs, small tea- spoon of soda, mixed with the flour, two cups of cocoanut. 364: THE HOME COOK BOOK. JACKSON JUMBLES. Mrs. C. A. Rogers. One cup of butter

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