Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1.5 cups sugar
• H teaspoon baking-powder
• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons sweet milk
• 1 large cup raisins
• 2 cups oatmeal (uncooked)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• A little nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together; add eggs, milk, and oatmeal.

2. 2

   Sift baking powder into flour and add raisins and nutmeg last.

3. 3

   Drop onto greased tins and bake for 15-20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from True food values and their low costs (1916) by William S. Birge, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoons baking-powder 1 cup raisins ground with a meal culler Drop batter from a tablespoon onto greased tins, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixed, if desired. Bake in quick oven. 192 TRUE FOOD VALUES Buttermilk Cookies One and a half cups granulated sugar, or two cups soft white sugar, one cup lard, one cup but- termilk in which have been dissolved two level teaspoons of soda. Flavor with nutmeg and add flour to make a soft dough. Bake in a hot oven. Poor Man's Fruit Cake Dissolve a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in four teaspoons of water. Put in a bowl, add a half cup of molasses, one cup of thick sour milk, and three tablespoons of melted butter. Mix thoroughly; add one cup of brown sugar, and then stir in three cups of sifted flour. Add one level teaspoon each of cinnamon and ginger, and half a nutmeg, grated; stir in one pound of seeded raisins. Turn into a square bread pan and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. When done turn it from the pan, and when cool put it in a tin box to ripen for at least one week. The above is an excellent fruit cake, and the cost is very moderate for a cake of the kind. The recipe was given us by a lady, who declared it the best fruit cake she had ever eaten. How TO Make Three Kinds of Cake at One Time Separate the yolks of four eggs into the mixing AND THEIR LOW COSTS 193 I bowl, with two cups of sugar and half a cup of butter. Add whites beaten and cream lightly. Put in one teaspoon vanilla, two teaspoons baking-powder, and gradually add enough flour until mixture drops from spoon. Take three small greased loaf tins and put a third of this mixture into first tin, adding a few raisins, thus making loaf raisin cake. Drop the second third into small bowl, add one and a half teaspoons cocoa to color it, and put in second pan — making loaf of chocolate cake. Into the last third put a pinch each of nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon, and the third tin will have a delicious spice cake. These make a nice variety for lunches and can made in one mixing. Oatmeal Cookies 1 cup butter 2 cups flour Ifii mps sugar H teaspoon baking- 2 eggs powder 4 tablespoons sweet milk 1 large cup raisins 2 cups oatmeal (un- (seeded, cut, and cooked) floured). 1 teaspoon dnnamon A little nutmeg

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