Fruit Cookies

Ingredients

• one cupful and one-half of sugar
• one cupful of butter and lard or vegetable shortening
• three tablespoonfuls of molasses
• the same amount of hot water
• three eggs
• one cupful of raisins
• one teaspoonful each of soda
• ginger
• cinnamon
• a light sprinkling of cloves
• and flour to make very stiff
• Half a cupful or more of chopped nut meats

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and shortening, add beaten eggs, molasses, water, spices, and soda, then flour and lastly fruit.

2. 2

   Pat the batter flat in a well-buttered baking pan, put in bag, and bake in a fairly hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cinnamon Cake. — Cream one-quarter cup of butter and one cup of sugar, add one-half cup of milk, one well beaten egg, one and three-quarters cups of flour sifted twice with three even teaspoons of baking powder, and pour in a shallow pan to make a sheet rather than a loaf. Just before setting the cake into the oven sprinkle cinna- mon and granulated sugar over the top. Put into a bag. Seal and bake twenty minutes. Serve fresh and cut in squares. English Fairy Cakes. — Sift together six ounces of flour and a half teaspoonful of baking powder. Grate a lemon rind and add to the sifted flour together with three ounces chopped candied cherries. Beat to a cream four ounces of butter and four of sugar, then add three eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly. Add the flour and cherry mixture and stir lightly. Have ready some but- tered patty-tins, half fill with the batter, bag, and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. 106 STANDARD PAPER BAG COOKERY Fruit Cookies. — One cupful and one-half of sugar, either white or brown, one cupful of butter and lard or vegetable shortening, (half and half is good) three tablespoonfuls of molasses, the same amount of hot water, three eggs, one cupful of raisins, one teaspoonful each of soda (dissolved in hot water), ginger and cinna- mon, a light sprinkling of cloves, and flour to make very stiff. Half a cupful or more of chopped nut meats

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