Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

• one cup of molasses
• one cup of sugar
• one cup of lard
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of ginger
• two teaspoonfuls of salcratus
• one cup of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Roll thin, cut in squares, and bake quick.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from High-Street cook book (1885) by C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.), Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful of salt, stir all together until quite smooth, then add one-half tea- cup of boiling water, in which one-half teaspoonful of soda lias been dissolved; stir briskly, and put in the oven as soon as possible. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Catarrh Is one of the most prevalent, as well as one of the most disagreeable, of diseases. It sometimes destroys the nasal bones, which causes loss of the sense of smell; or, the matter dropping on the bronchial tubes causes bronchitis, and often pulmonary consumption. Besides the uncomfortable and disgusting flow from the nose, there are ringing and bursting noises in the ears, pain on the top of the head, and offensive breath. Severe nervous prostration follows, with a miserable, tired feeling generally. Ca- tarrh is a constitutional disease, and Hood's Sarsaparilla being a constitu- tional remedy, acting through the blood, effects cures in the most severe cases. Bronchial Tubes Affected. " I have been troubled with catarrh about a year, causing great soreness of the bronchial tubes and terrible head- ache. I saw7 the advertisement of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for catarrh, and after taking only one bottle I am much better. My catarrh is cured, my throat is entirely well, and my headache has all disappeared." Richard Gibbons, Hamil- ton, Butler County, Ohio. Asthma or Catarrh. "For several years I had been troubled witli a kind of asthma or catarrh in my throat, and had tried several kinds of medicine but could find nothing to help me. My wife wanted me to try a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla. I told the drug- gist of whom I bought it that I had no faith in it. but would give it a trial, which I did. 1 must say T was very much bene- fited by using it and would recommend it very highly to any one having asthma or catarrh." ELIAS P. Devries, firm of Devries & Peterson, Omaha, Neb. Hay Fever. "Last summer I had what the doctors called hay fever, and used medicine for about six weeks, but received no benefit. I was advised to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. I took one bottle, which did me a great deal of good. I have continued to use it in my family and can recommend it as a blood purifier." G. Burris, Alton, 111. irooirs s i n s I /' l // //. LA. 21 .S7. Sponge Cake. Ten eggs (eleven If small), <'ii<' pound mi" sugar, half a pound of flour, a little salt, llif juice iiinl rind of one lemon. 82. Snow Flake Cake. Coffeecup of butter, two and a naif coffeecups <>f sugar, one coffeecup of milk, stir to a cream; the whites of twelve . iii cups of flour, three tablespoon- t'u'.s of corn starch, two heaping tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Mi\ with flour; eggs last. Flavor; slow oven, 83. Bridgeport Cake. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four eggs, three and one-half cups of tl<»ur. one cup of milk, two cups <>f cur- rants, one-half pound of citron, out' tea- spoonful Of salcratus. juice and grated rind of one lemon. Hood's Sarsaparilla ui\ es new life ami vigor. <S'^. Toe (ream Coke. Whites of Ave eggs, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of milk, one tea spoonful of cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda. three cups of Hour. Separate this mix- ture and color half with straw-hem col- oring, flavor this with vanilla and the white with lemon, put in the white, then the pink. Bake slowly. Now is the time to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. sr>. Cookies. Beal one cup of butter to a cream and then add one and a half cups of sugar, tw> eggs, and four and a half cups of (lour with half a teaspoonful of BOda mixed with it. Roll very thin and hake in a quick oven. Hood's Sarsaparilla. 56. Ginger Cookies. < >ne cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of lard, one teaspoonful of alt. one teaspoonful of ginger, two teaspoon- fuls of salcratus dissolved in onecup of hot water

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