New Year's Cookies

Ingredients

• One and one-fourth pound of sugar
• one pound of butter
• one-half pint of cold water
• three and one-fourth pounds of flour
• one teaspoonful of soda
• four tablespoonfuls caraway seed

Method

1. 1

   Rub or chop butter into flour, dissolve sugar in water, mix with beaten eggs, cut with a round mould, and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half pint of cold water, one-half ounce of ammonia, dissolved in the water, and added immediately to the other ingredients before mixing, flavor with lemon, wash with beaten egg and dust with broken sugar on top before putting in the oven. ALMOND CAKES. Whites of eight eggs, beaten to a froth, stir into them one 186 CAKE. pound of powdered sugar, for half an hour, one-half pound of almonds, chopped, and flour sufficient to make a thick dough. Drop on buttered tins dusted with flour. Put in cinnamon to suit the taste. SPONGE DKOPS. One and one fourth pounds of sugar, nine eggs, one ounce of ammonia, one-half pint of sweet milk; flavor with lemon; one pound of flour. Drop on buttered pans and bake in a hot oven. SHREWSBURRY CAKES. Four pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of butter, eight eggs, one pint of milk, one and one-half ounces of ammonia, lemon to taste. Drop on tins and bake. CITRON CAKES. Four eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, then together, with one-half pound white powdered sugar; stir one-half hour; one-fourth pound of chopped citron, and the same of chopped almonds; flour enough for thick dough, and bake like the above. LEMON JUMBLES. One egg, one teacupful of sugar, one-half teacup of butter, three teaspoonfuls of milk, juice of two small lemons, and the grated rind of one, one level teaspoon of cream-tartar, one-half (small) teaspoon of soda. Mix into a soft dough, handle as little as possible, roll very thin cut into round cakes and bake in a quick oven. NEW YEAR'S COOKIES. One and one-fourth pound of sugar, one pound of butter, one- half pint of cold water, three and one-fourth pounds of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in warm water, four tablespoon- fuls caraway see

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.