Oatmeal Cakes

Ingredients

• three-fourths cupful vegetable shortening
• a cupful and a half of brown sugar
• one teaspoonful of soda
• one cupful of boiling water
• two cupfuls of dry oatmeal
• two cupfuls of flour
• a half teaspoonful of salt
• two well beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream shortening and sugar, dissolve soda in boiling water and add.

2. 2

   Mix oatmeal, flour, salt, and add to the mixture.

3. 3

   Add eggs and drop onto a greased bag.

4. 4

   Bake for about fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oatmeal Cakes.— Beat to a cream three- fourths cup- ful vegetable shortening or butter and a cupful and a half of brown sugar. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in one cupful of boiling water and add to butter and sugar mixture. Mix together two cupfuls of dry oatmeal, two cupfuls of flour and a half teaspoonful of salt and add to the other ingredients. Flavor to taste. Lastly add two well beaten eggs

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