Ginger Cookies, No. 2

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls of molasses
• One cupful of butter
• One-half cupful of sugar
• One tea-spoonful of ginger
• One tea-spoonful of soda
• One-half tea-spoonful of salt
• One-half tea-cupful of cold water
• Flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Place these ingredients together the same as in the preceding recipe, dissolving the soda in the cold water.

2. 2

   Roll the dough thin, having added no more flour than will keep the dough from sticking to the board.

3. 3

   Cut out and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 223. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGER COOKIES, NO. 2. Two cupfuls of molasses. One cupful of butter. One-half cupful of sugar. One tea-spoonful of ginger. One tea-spoonful of soda. One-half tea-spoonful of salt. One-half tea-cupful of cold water. Flour to thicken

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