Fruit Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 qt. flour
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup currants
• y^. orange peel
• enough sour milk to make a soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour with soda, add sugar, currants, and orange peel.

2. 2

   Add enough sour milk to make a soft dough; roll 0.5 inch thick, cut into desired shapes, and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 381. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 tablespoons buttermilk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2^ cups graham flour, 2^ cups white flour. Roll thin and put dates between. — Mrs R. A. Turner, Franklin Park, 111. FIG COOKIES.— Take Y-z lb. figs. Chopped fine, and place in a causepan on the stove. Add 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 cup water; boil till thick, and set away to cool. Then take a small cup full of white sugar, ^ cup butter and lard, ^ cup sour milk, 1 cup oat meal, a small teaspoon of soda, flour enough to make a dough; roll out and spread figs between; cut in squares and bake. — Mrs. C. C. Bettleheim, Golf, 111. FlilED CAKES.— Cream together 1 cup sugar and 2 table- spoons of shortening; add 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup sour milk, in which 1 teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, and 2 cups of flour. Mix and roll about H inch thick, cut. Drop into hot lard in which there is a peeled potato to keep lard from burning; they will come to top of lard when light. Fry a dark brown; when done, remove and sprinkle with sugar. — Mrs. Lighthart, 811 N. 19th Ave., May- wood, 111. FRUIT COOKIES.— 1 qt. flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 4 table- spoons butter, rubbed into flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup currants with y^. orange peel, cut fine; add enough sour milk to make a soft dough

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