Ginger Cookies, No. I

Ingredients

• One cupful of sugar
• One cupful of butter
• One cupful of molasses
• One-third cupful of vinegar
• One tea-spoonful of salt
• One tea-spoonful of soda
• One table-spoonful of ginger
• One egg

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar together, add the egg well beaten, the salt and ginger, and stir all well together until smooth.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, stir the vinegar into the molasses, and add the latter to the mixture.

3. 3

   Beat all well together, and put in enough flour to admit of rolling out properly, taking care that no more flour is used than is necessary to prevent the cakes sticking to the board.

4. 4

   Roll quite thin, cut the cookies out, and bake them 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. I. One cupful of sugar. One cupful of butter. One cupful of molasses. One-third cupful of vinegar. Flour to thicken. One tea-spoonful of salt. One tea-spoonful of soda. One table-spoonful of ginger. One egg

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