Ginger Snaps (Alternate)

Ingredients

• One cup of molasses
• two teaspoons of soda
• one cup of butter
• three-fourths of sugar
• two eggs
• two tablespoons of water
• two tablespoons ginger
• some cinnamon
• some cloves
• and allspice
• add flour and roll very thin

Method

1. 1

   Let molasses come to a boil, then add soda when cool; mix with butter, sugar, and eggs, then add remaining ingredients and roll very thin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two eggs, flour enough to make very stiff : roll them out and wet the tops with whites of eggs, then put two almonds on each one ; sprinkle over them cinnamon and sugar. SUGAE DEOPS. Mrs. H. M. Buell. One pound flour, three-fourths pound of sugar, one-half of butter, four eggs, a gill of rose water. To be baked on paper. This will make sixty drops. COCOANUT DEOPS. Mrs. H. M. Buell. The meat of one cocoanut, pared and grated, weight of the same in sugar, one-half cup of flour, white. NO MATTEES. M, A. Bingham. . ^ Three cups sour milk, three tablespoons of cream or butter; one cup of sugar; roll about the size of a plate, fry in hot lard, cover each with nicely seasoned apple sauce ; lay over each other. VALUABLE EECIFES. 365 CINNAMON WAFEES. Mrs. Beyer. Two and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup butter, three eggs, one tablespoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon soda; put in enough flour to roll out. GINGEE CAKE. Mrs. Mann, Freeport. One half cup butter, one of molasses, one of sugar, one of cold water, one heaping teaspoon soda, one quart of flour. Ginger and salt to taste; drop on the tins and bake in a quick oven. GINGER COOKIES. Mrs. J. O. Knapp. One cup of sugar, one of butter, one of molasses, two tablespoons ginger, and two teaspoons saleratus dissolved in three tablespoons of hot water. Bake quickly. GINGER SNAPS. Miss Gilbert, Evanston. One cup molasses, one-half of sugar, two-thirds of butter, one-half of water, one tablespoon ginger, one-half teaspoon of alum dissolved in hot water, two teaspoons saleratus, dissolved in the molasses ; mix the whole, with flour enough to roll out nicely. GINGER SNAPS. Mrs. John Edwards, Rockford. One cup of molasses ; let it come to a boil, then add 366 THE HOME COOK BOOK. two teaspoons of soda, when cool ; mix one cup of butter, three-fourths of sugar, and two eggs well together ; then add your molasses and two tablespoons of water, two tablespoons ginger, some cinnamon, and some cloves, and allspice; add flour and roll very thin

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