Ice Box Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 6 1/2 cups flour
• 1 level teaspoon soda in two tablespoons hot water
• 1/4 pound walnuts or almonds, broken up
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter, lard and sugar.

2. 2

   Add the other ingredients in their order.

3. 3

   This mixes into a stiff dough which you put into a bread tin and stand in the ice box overnight.

4. 4

   In the morning, put the loaf on the bread board and slice in thin slices as you would any meat loaf.

5. 5

   Bake on cookie sheet in quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 30 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ice Box Cookies 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon cloves 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt 3 eggs 6}/2 cups flour 1 level teaspoon soda in two tablespoons hot water }4: pound walnuts or almonds, broken up

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