Nut Rocks

Ingredients

• Four cups flour
• three heaping teaspoons baking powder
• half a teaspoon salt
• three eggs
• one tablespoon cream
• a generous cup butter
• one and a half cups sugar
• one heaping cup walnuts

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

2. 2

   Mix with eggs, cream, butter, sugar, and walnuts.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nut Rocks Two eggs, one cup sugar, half cup butter, one teaspoon baking powder, two cups flour, a little salt. Macaroons One-half pound sugar, one pound almond paste, rub to- gether while dry till very fine; then work to a soft paste that will drop easily with whites of eggs (about eight or nine eggs for above quantities; if too much, divide proportionately). Be careful not to drop any of the yolk into the mixture, as it will spoil it; bake in moderate oven. Drop on paper and bake in pans. Hermits Two eggs, one and a half cups sugar, three-quarters cup butter, one teaspoon soda dissolved in quarter cup sour milk, half a cup each of raisins and currants, four cups flour, or little less, half a cup walnuts, half a teaspoon allspice, half a teaspoon cinnamon, half a nutmeg. Drop on buttered tins and bake. Cocoanut Macaroons One-half pound package of cocoanut, half a pound fruit sugar, whites of two eggs. 110 The Toronto Cook Book Sand Snaps Beat half a pound of butter to a cream; add gradually one pound of sugar and the yolks of two eggs. Beat five minutes, then stir in the whites, well beaten; add gently sufficient flour to make a hard dough; knead lightly until smooth; roll out in a very thin sheet ; cut with a round cutter and bake in a slow oven for ten minutes to a golden brown. Brandy Snaps One and three-quarters pounds of flour, half a pound good butter, one pound of brown sugar, one pound syrup, one ounce of ginger, one teaspoon salt (level; put sugar and syrup together; let warm on stove, rub butter and sugar together. Nut Rocks Four cups flour; sift in three heaping teaspoons baking powder, half a teaspoon salt, three eggs, one tablespoon cream, a generous cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, one heaping cup walnuts

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