My Mother's Cookies

Ingredients

• One pound of butter
• two cups of sugar
• four whole eggs
• one white
• two teaspoons yeast powder
• a little whiskey

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs and flour to make a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Roll out thin, cut into shapes, and top with egg yolk, milk, sugar, and almonds.

3. 3

   Bake until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

My Mother's Cookies. One pound of butter and two cups of sugar, rubbed to a cream; four whole eggs. and one white, flour to make a stiff dough, and two teaspoons yeast i powder, a little whiskey. Roll out thin and cut in any shape desired. Yolk of an egg mixed with a little milk put on top of each cooky, and sugar and chopped almonds added. Bake in moderate oven ' until brown, cool, and then place in a closed tin box. Plain Cookies. Half pound butter, half pound sugar, yolks of two eggs, one tablespoon brandy, vanilla and lemon flavor- ing, flour enough to roll, and one teaspoon yeast powder in the first cup of flour. Brush with egg, and sprinkle sugar, cinnamon and chopped nuts on top. Old-fashioned Oblong Cookies. Two cups brown sugar, half cup molasses, one cup shredded cocoanut, half cup chopped citron, one teaspoon of all kinds of spices, two cups flour mixed with two teaspoons yeast powder

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