Peanut Wafers

Ingredients

• 34 cup butter
• VY teaspoon soda
• 11% cups light-brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 1 cup peanuts, chopped
• Y teaspoon salt
• Flour (about 3 cups)

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and add sugar gradually.

2. 2

   Add egg, salt, and soda dissolved in milk.

3. 3

   Add half the peanuts to mixture.

4. 4

   Add flour to roll.

5. 5

   Put a part of the mixture on a well-greased and slightly floured cooky sheet or inverted dripping pan, and pat and roll inch thick; sprinkle with peanuts and bake in hot oven (400° F.).

6. 6

   Cut in strips 1 by 3 inches.

7. 7

   Repeat until mixture is used.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 288. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEANUT WAFERS 34 cup butter VY teaspoon soda 11% cups light-brown sugar 3 tablespoons milk 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup peanuts, chopped Y teaspoon salt Flour (about 3 cups)

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