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Good Cookies

From Temperance cook book, 1887

Serves 24

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOOD COOKIES. Two cups of white sugar, one cup of nice fresh lard, two eggs, well beaten, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream -tartar. Stir lard and sugar to a cream, add the beaten eggs, the milk with soda, the cream-tartar with the flour; flavor to taste; mix very soft

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