German Cookies

Ingredients

• To one cup of sugar
• one cup of butter
• one cup of lard
• one cup of molasses
• the juice and grated rind of one lemon
• one tablespoonful of vinegar
• one teaspoonful each of cinnamon
• one and one-half teaspoonful of ginger
• one egg
• one cup of nuts
• one tablespoonful each of candied citron
• and orange peel chopped fine
• flour enough to make stiff

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients to form a stiff dough and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ne cup of tho- lasses and two cups of milk ^ternately with the sifted flour mixture. Beat thoroughly and add three cups each of seeded raisins and citron, both slightly floureit Bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Maple Sugar Fruit Cake^Cream one cupful of butter and add to it two cupfuls of maple sugar, one of maple syrup, .three beaten eggs, one small cupful of milk with a rounding teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, five cupfuls of flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar and a little salt. Mix all together ar.d add one pound of raisins, one of cur- rants, half a pound of citron and a quarter of a pound of orange peel, all well floured. Mo spices are used, as the maple sugar flavors the Old-Fashioned Fruit Cake.— This is intended for rolling out and bak- ing in flat pans, instead of the usual loaf. Take two and a half cupfuls of sugar, creamed up with half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of sour milk, a teaspoonful of soda, half a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, nut- meg and ground cloves, a cupful of raisins and one of currants, with a little chopped citron and enough flour to make quite stiff. Knead all together, roll about two inches thick and bake in a moderate oven. Spread the layers with boiled sugar frosting and cut into squares before the frosting hardens. Poor Man's Fruit Cake. — Seed and chop a quarter of a pound of dates ; mix with them one cupful of seeded raisins, and dust them with one-half cupful of flour. Dissolve a level teaspoonful of baking soda in two tahlespoonfuls of warm water; add to it half a pint of very thick sour cream, stir a moment and add one cupful of brown sugar, half a tumblerful of currant or blackberry jelly, .a tablespoonful of cinnamon, a teaspoonful of allspice and two cupfuls and a half of flour. Beat thor- oughly, add the fruit, mix well and turn into a greased square pan. Bake in a very slow oven for one hour and a half. This cake will be quit'e equal to plain fruit cake if the cream is very thick, and it is allowed to stand a week before cutting. German Cookies.— To one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of lard, one cilji of molasses, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one tablespoonful of vinegar, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon and ginger, one and one-half teaspoonful of soda, add one egg, one cup of nufs, one tablespoonful each of candied citron and orange peel chopped fine and flour enough to make stiff

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