Honey Cookies

Ingredients

• Honey, ½ cup
• Cloves, 1 teaspoon
• Sugar, ½ cup
• Soda, ½ teaspoon
• Flour, 2½ cups
• Cinnamon, 1½ teaspoons
• Walnut meats, finely chopped, ½ pound
• Candied orange peel, finely chopped, 2 ounces
• Allspice, 1 teaspoon

Method

1. 1

   Sift together the flour, spices, soda, and add the other ingredients.

2. 2

   Knead thoroughly, roll out thin, and cut with a biscuit cutter.

3. 3

   These cookies are very hard.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Use and preparation of food (1919) by United States. Federal Board for Vocational Education., page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sugar, 1 cup. Powdered cardamom seed, i teaspoon. Honey, | cup. Orange-flower water, ^ teaspoon. Butter, 1 cup. Soda, i teaspoon. Pastry flour, 2 cups. 4 eggs. Rub together the butter and sugar and add the honey. Add the well-beaten yolks of eggs. Finally add the egg whites, beaten to a stiff froth, and the orange-flower water. Add gradually the flour, sifted with the soda and carda- mom seed. Beat the mixture 10 minutes. Put the dough into a warm tin with high sides aud bake one hour in a slow oven. 160 USE AND PREPARATION OF FOOD. HONEY FRUIT CAKE. Honej', 3* cups. Vauilla, 2 teaspoons. Butter, 1 cup. Seeded raisins, 3 pounds. Flour, 3 cups. Currants, 1* pounds. 6 eggs. Citron, 1 pound. Soda, 2 teaspoons. Candied cherries, 1 pound. Cinnamon, 2 teaspoons. Candied apricots, 1 pound. Sour jelly or wliite grape juice, * cup. Candied pineapple, 1 pound. Ginger, 2 teaspoons. Candied orange peel, 2 ounces. Ground cardamom seed, 3 teaspoons. Candied lemon peel, 2 ounces. Cloves, 2 teaspoon. Cut all the candied fruit except the cherries into small pieces. Place the fruit in a large dish and sift over it one-half the flour, mixing thoroughlj-. Sift the soda with the i-emaining flour. Bring the honey and the butter to the boiling point and while still hot add the spices. "When the mixture is cool, add the well-beaten yolks of the eggs, then the flour and grape juice or jelly, and the well-beaten whites. Finally, add the fruit. Divide doiigh into three or four parts and put into buttered tins covered with buttered paper tied loosely over the top. Steam for five hours, remove the paper, and bake in a very slow oven for an hour. HOMEY COOKIES. Honey, § cup. Cloves, 1 teaspoon. Sugar, f cup. Soda, I teaspoon. Flour, 2i cups. Cinnamon ,1^ teaspoons. Walnut meats, finely chopped, ^ pound. Cloves, 1 teaspoon. Candied orange peel, finely chopped. Allspice, 1 teaspoon

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