Graham Crackers

Ingredients

• Cream V2 cup butter
• y^ cup sugar
• y^ teasp soda
• ^k cup water
• about a handful white flour
• enough graham flour to roll

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter with sugar, add dissolved soda in water, and enough flour to roll.

2. 2

   Roll thin, cut into desired shapes, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GRAHAM CRACKERS 63 Strawberry Fingers Boil together 1 cup fresh, cold water and % cup butter. Into this boiling mixture stir 1 cup sifted flour, and stir constantly until it rolls together in a ball. When partly cool, add 4 eggs, beating in one at a time, but do not beat the eggs separately. Drop this mixture on a thin, buttered tin in long, narrow- strips, one inch apart. Bake in a moderate oven until well risen and a delicate brown — ^^ hour is generally enough. The oven door should be left open a few minutes before remov- ing the fingers therefrom. This will prevent them from col' lapsing. When cool split the fingers on one side, fill with crushed strawberries, or strawberry jam. Spread tops of fingers with an icing colored with the berry juice. — [Mrs. N. P., N. H. Sugar Crackers Cream 1 cup butter with 2 cups sugar, add 1 egg, y^. teasp soda dissolved in ^^ cup cold water, and 1 teasp cream tartar sifted with flour enough to roll. Mix soft, roll thin and bake quickly. These crackers are crisp and delicious. — [Mrs. E. W. R., N. y. Cheap Oatmeal Crackers To 1 cup rolled oats add 1 cup flour with a small pinch bak- ing powder, a little salt, and I tablesp sugar. Rub 2 tablesp butter in this mixture and just enough water to hold it together. Roll out thin on a floured board, cut and bake. — [M. L. Q., Me. Graham Crackers Cream V2, cup butter with y^ cup sugar, add y^ teasp soda dissolved in "^k cup water, about a handful white flour, and enough graham flour to roll

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