Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cupful sugar
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• 1 cupful Crisco
• 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
• 3 cupfuls rolled oats
• 1 cupful stoned chopped dates
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful baking soda
• ¥% cupful sour milk
• 2 cupfuls flour
• 1 teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add eggs well-beaten.

2. 2

   Mix in rolled oats, dates, salt, spices, soda dissolved in milk, and flour.

3. 3

   Drop from spoon on Criscoed baking tins.

4. 4

   Bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 15 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oatmeal Cookies 1% cupfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 3 cupfuls rolled oats 1 cupful stoned chopped dates 2 eggs 1 teaspoonful baking soda ¥% cupful sour milk 2 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful salt Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add eggs well-beaten. rolled oats, dates, salt, spices, soda dissolved in milk, and flours Mix and drop from spoon on Criscoed baking tins. Bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes. Sufficient for forty-five cookies. Oven Scones 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful baking soda 5 tablespoonfuls Crisco 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar 1 tablespoonful sugar 1 egg y% teaspoonful salt Sweet milk Rub Crisco finely into flour, add sugar, salt, soda, and cream of tar- tar. Beat egg, put half of it into cup, then with one-half and some sweet milk make other ingredients into soft dough> Knead very little on floured baking board, divide into five pieces, make them smooth and roll out, not too thinly, cut them into four small cakes. Lay them on a Criscoed tin, brush over with remaining egg and bake in hot oven ten minutes. A few currants or raisins may be added if liked. Sufficient for twenty small scones. 108 Breads, etc. Raised Doughnuts 1 cupful milk 1 cupful sugar

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