Maple Sugar Cookies
From The Cook County cook book, 1912
Serves 2
Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 381. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
J/2 teaspoon soda, Y2 teaspoon baking powder, spices to taste, cinnamon or cloves, and flour to make stiff. Roll, cut and bake. — Mrs. Lew Brott, Grant Works, 111. HAZLENUT CAKES.— Mince very finely 2 oz. of hazlenuts and Y2 oz. of sweet almonds. Add 3 oz. of pounded and sifted sugar, the white of an t^z, beaten to a firm froth, enough flour to bind them together. Roll out the paste till it is Ya inch thick, stamp it out in small, round cakes, place on well-buttered tins, and bake in a slow oven 20 minutes. — Mrs, E. D. Kelley, Wiin- netka, HI. LADY FINGERS. — Rub together 1 cup granulated sugar and Yz cup butter; add Ya cup sweet milk, 1 egg, 2 cups flour, 1 tea- spoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla; roll in sugar; bake in a quick oven. Use your hands to roll and cut in finger lengths. — Mrs. Betty Baker, Edison, 111. GERMAN *'LEBKUCKEN" COOKIES.— Beat 4 whole eggs with 2 cups of sugar about Yz an hr. Add 4 figs, rind of 1 lemon, Ya lb. each of citron and lemon peel, finely chopped. Then add 1 558 CAKE taMespoon each of cinnamon and cocoa, 2 cups of flour, and 1 saltspoon of powdered ammonia. Put the dough on a floured board, roll out and shape into 3-inch squares. Bake in moderate oven. Frosting. — Beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth; add pow- dered sugar and a little vanilla. — Mrs. Schmalzried, Maywood, 111. MAPLE SUGAR COOKIES.— Mix together 2 large cups ma- ple sugar, 2 eggs; rub in 1 cup butter; add 2 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, Yz teaspoon soda, and flour enough^ to roll soft
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