Mama's Rocks

Ingredients

• To three eggs, beaten light
• one and one-half cups sugar
• two and one-half cups flour
• one-half cup lard
• one-half cup butter, melted
• one-half teaspoon cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon allspice
• one-half teaspoon nutmeg
• two teaspoons vanilla
• one teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water
• three-fourths pound ground dates
• two cups English walnuts chopped

Method

1. 1

   Add sugar to beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Add flour, lard, melted butter, spices, vanilla, and soda.

3. 3

   Add ground dates and walnuts.

4. 4

   Form into small balls and cook on cookie trays in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MAMA'S ROCKS To three eggs, beaten light, add one and one-half cups sugar, cream. Add two and one-half cups flour (before sifted), one-half cup lard, one-half cup butter, melted. Add one-half teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon allspice, one-half teaspoon nutmeg, one-third at a time. Add two teaspoons vanilla, one teaspoon soda dissolved in one tablespoon hot water. Add three-fourths pound ground dates and two cups English walnuts chopped

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