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Oatmeal Cookies

Name: Oatmeal Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups of sugar; 1 1/2 cups of butter; 1 teaspoonful soda; 1 teaspoonful cinnamon; 2 cups of flour; 2 cups of oatmeal; 2 cups of currants; 4 eggs

From The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book, 1921

A classic oatmeal cookie recipe.

Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oatmeal Cookies (Without Eggs). 1 cupful sugar; 1 cupful molasses; 1 cupful lard; Sy2 cupfuls flour; 4 cupfuls of uncooked oatmeal; 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon. Dissolve 2 teaspoonfuls of soda in V2 cup boiling water. Mix well and form small cookies with the hand. MRS. ALVIN STRIEGLER. Oatmeal Cookies. 2 cups of sugar; 1^ cups of butter; 1 teaspoonful soda; 1 teaspoonful cinnamon; 2 cups of flour; 2 cups of oatmeal; 2 cups of currants; 4 eggs

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