Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

• three-fourths of a cupful of butter
• one cupful of sugar
• two well-beaten eggs
• two cupfuls of flour
• three-fourths of a teaspoonful of soda
• one-half a teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• two cupfuls of uncooked rolled oats
• one scant cupful of chopped raisins

Method

1. 1

   Cream three-fourths of a cupful of butter with one cupful of sugar; add two well-beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Sift three-fourths of a teaspoonful of soda into two cupfuls of flour; add one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon; now add to the mixture two cupfuls of uncooked rolled oats and one scant cupful of chopped raisins sprinkled with a little flour.

3. 3

   Drop by the teaspoonful into a greased pan; bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cupful of sugar and one cupful of but- ter or good shortening. Cream them and add two cups of molasses and two eggs. Dissolve two good-sized teaspoonfuls of soda in a little hot water, and fill up the cup it is in with cold water. Add it to the other mixture and stir in enough flour to make a soft dough, but one that can be rolled out and cut into cookies. Spice to suit the taste. Delicious Nut Cake. — Cream half a cupful of sugar, adding the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs and beating very light ; then add, by alter- nate bits, two-thirds of a cupful of milk and one and a half cupfuls of flour mixed with two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder. At the last turn in a cupful of minced English walnut meat and bake in a shallow tin. When the cake is cool cover with icing, mark in squares and put nut meat on the top of each. Nut Wafers, — Two eggs, one cup of sugar, two tablespoon fuls of flour, one cup of nut meats chopped fine. Hickorynuts are preferred, and the sugar should be light brown. Spread the mixture in a very thin layer on a well-greased tin and bake ten minutes or until well tinged with brown. Cut in squares and remove from the tin as soon as they are done, that the wafer.!! may grow crispy in the air. Oatmeal Cookies.— Cream three-fourths of a cupful of butter with one c;upful of sugar; add two well-beaten eggs. Sift three-fourths of a tea- spoonful of soda into two cupfuls of flour; add one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon; now add to the mixture two cup- fuls of uncooked rolled oats and one scant cupful of chopped raisins

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