Jumbles

Ingredients

• Take one pint of sour cream
• three eggs
• two cups of sugar
• one quart of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of phosphatic baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• Season with cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Cut in rings and fry in lard to a light brown, or bake them quickly in a hot oven.

2. 2

   If the latter, wet the tops with the white of an egg and sift white sugar over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 366. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JUMBLES. GRAHAM WAFERS. Put a pinch of salt into one-half pound of Graham flour, wet it with one-half pint of sweet cream, mix quickly and thoroughly, roll out as thin as possible, cut in strips, prick and bake in a quick oven. DUTCH SUGAR COOKIES. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one-half of a nutmeg, one even teaspoonful soda ; mix well. BOSTON COOKIES. One cup butter, one and one-half sugar, two and one-half flour, one and one-half raisins chopped fine, one-half teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little warm water, three eggs, a pinch of salt and nutmeg and other flavoring to the taste. Mix well, roll thin, or better still, drop into the pans with a spoon and sprinkle granulated sugar over each. HICKORY NUT COOKIES Take two cups of sugar, two eggs, half a cupful of melted butter, six tablespoonfuls of milk or a little more than a third of a cup, one tea- spoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda and one cup of chopped meats stirred into the dough. 430 CAKE. NEW YEAR'S COOKIES. Weigh out a pound of sugar, three-quarters pound butter, stir them to a cream, then add three beaten eggs, a grated nutmeg, a spoonful of extract of lemon and a pint of flour ; dissolve a teaspoonful of saleratus in a teacup of milk, strain and mix it with half a teacup of cider and stir it into the cookies ; then add flour to make them sufficiently stiff to roll out. Bake them as soon as cut into cakes in a quick oven till a light brown. TRAINING CAKES. Take a teacup and put in it one teaspoonful soda, two tablespoonfuls water, three of melted shortening, then fill the cup up with molasses and pour into the pan ; add salt and ginger to suit the taste ; stir in flour to make it stiff enough to knead on a board, the same as for bread, roll out and cut in square or round cakes. GINGER COOKIES WITHOUT EGGS. One cup molasses, half cup sugar, half cup shortening, half cup warm water, two teaspoonfuls ginger, two teaspoonfuls soda; flavor with nutmeg, and flour to roll nicely. Roll no thinner than one-fourth inch, and bake in a quick oven. COCOANUT COOKIES, Two cups sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda dis- solved in a tablespoonf ul of milk, one cocoanut and flour enough to roll. HERMIT COOKIES. Half cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon- ful of all kinds of spices, half teaspoonful soda. Dissolve in a little water, mix up stiff and roll. ABERFFRAW CAKES. Three-quarters of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, one pound flour ; add the butter by degrees and work with the hand ; roll out and cut with a glass. GINGER SNAPS. Put into a tin pan two cups of molasses, one cup of brown sugar, two-thirds of a cup of lard, one tablespoonf ul of ground ginger ; boil until these thicken a little ; stir in by degrees a good handful of sifted flour. After it is heated well add a heaping teaspoonful of soda dis- solved in a little tepid water ; mix thoroughly before taking from the COOKIES, SNAPS AND JUMBLES. 431 stove, then add flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, cut the cakes in shapes and bake in a quick oven. LEMON SNAPS. One coffee-cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, two eggs, one level teaspoon soda dissolved in a quarter of a cup of hot water ; flour to roll thin ; flavor with lemon ; bake in a hot oven. JUMBLES. Take one pint of sour cream, three eggs, two cups of sugar, and one quart of flour into which has been thoroughly mixed two teaspoonfuls of phosphatic baking powder and a pinch of salt. Season with cinna- mon

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