Fruit Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• 2 cupfuls brown sugar
• 1 cupful Crisco
• 1 cupful chopped raisins
• 1 cupful chopped English walnut meats
• 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
• 1% teaspoonfuls baking soda
• 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk
• 3 eggs
• Flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stiff dough.

2. 2

   About 5 cupfuls flour will be sufficient.

3. 3

   Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cookies 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful powdered 2 cupfuls brown sugar cinnamon 1 cupful Crisco Y% teaspoonful powdered allspice 1 cupful chopped raisins 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 1 cupful chopped English 1% teaspoonfuls baking soda walnut meats 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk 3 eggs Flour Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stiff dough. About 5 cupfuls flour will be sufficient. Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes. Sufficient for sixty cookies. Fruit Drop Cakes 1 cupful sugar 4 tablespoonfuls chopped nut Y% cupful Crisco meats 2 cupfuls flour 2 tablespoonfuls chopped candied 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder ies peel 1 teaspoonful salt 3 eg 4 tablespoonfuls currants 2% eof milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract Cream Crisco and sugar together, add yolks of eggs well beaten. Beat whites stiffly and add alternately with milk. Add sifted flour, baking powder and salt, then fruits, nuts and extract. Divide mixture into Criscoed and floured gem pans, and bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Sufficient for eighteen drop cakes. 103 Breads, etc. Fruit Rolls 1 cupful milk ¥% |b. chopped candied citron peel 1 yeast cake % cupful chopped English Y% cupful lukewarm water walnut meats % cupful sugar Y% cupful currants 1% cupful melted Crisco ¥% cupful sultana raisins 2 teaspoonfuls salt Y% teaspoonful powdered cinnamon

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