Old-Fashioned Caraway Cookies

Ingredients

• Butter, 1 cup.
• Salt, ½ teaspoon.
• Sugar, 2 cups.
• Vanilla, ½ teaspoon.
• Milk, ½ cup.
• Caraway seeds, 2 heaping teaspoons.
• Eggs, 2.
• Flour, 5 cups.
• Baking powder, 2 teaspoons.

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add milk, beaten eggs, flour sifted with baking powder and salt, caraway seeds and vanilla.

2. 2

   Roll out very thin and cut in fancy shapes.

3. 3

   Bake quickly in a very hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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