Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• lard mixed
• 1% cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• % cup sour milk
• 1 teasp soda
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups flour sifted with a little salt and 1 heaping teasp cinnamon
• 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and lard with sugar, add eggs, sour milk in which soda is dissolved, oats, flour sifted with salt and cinnamon, and lastly raisins.

2. 2

   Drop by spoonsful on buttered tins, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OATMEAL COOKIES AND MACAROONS 59 flour sifted withi 2 teasp baking powder. Lastly add 1 cup chopped peanuts. Drop on buttered tins by tablespoonsful, and bake in a moderate oven. This makes about a dozen <;ookies.— [E. H., Wash. Oatmeal Jelly Cookies Cream 1 cup butter and 1 cup lard with 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar, add 8 tablesp hot water, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, then stir in 6 cups oatmeal (3 put through the meat chopper — fine cut), and lastly add 2 cups flour. Roll, cut and spread with the following filling and fold over: Fill- iug — To 1 lb seeded and chopped raisins add 1 cup sugar and a little water and boil until the consistency of jelly. — [Mrs. F. W. R., Mich. Oatmeal Nut Ck>okies Cream scant % cup butter, add gradually 1 cup light brown sugar, then 2 well-beaten eggs, and 4 tablesp sweet milk. Next stir in 2 cups rolled oats, and when these are well mois- tened, add 1 cup flour sifted with 1 level teasp each soda and salt, also cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to taste. Lastly add 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins and % cup chopped nut meats dredged with flour. Drop by teaspoonsful on buttered tins far enough apart so they will not crowd and run together. If the batter does not seem stiff enough, add more flour. — £Mrs. J. A. W., Mo. Oatmeal Cookies Cream 1 cup butter and lard mixed, with 1% cups sugar, add 3 eggs, % cup sour milk, in which dissolve 1 teasp soda, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, sifted with a little salt and 1 heap- ing teasp cinna

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