Pepper Nuts

Ingredients

• four cupfuls of fine sugar
• eight eggs
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• rind of two lemons
• two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of ground cloves
• one teaspoonful of allspice
• one grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Stir sugar and eggs for nearly half an hour, beat whites separately.

2. 2

   Add lemon rind, baking powder, flour, and spices.

3. 3

   Cut into shapes, add brandy drops, turn over next morning, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, two teaspoonfuls each of ground ginger and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of nutmeg, a pinch of salt and three CAKES, 247 cupfuls of flour. Beat together the butter and sugar, add the yolks of the eggs and the molasses. Next stir in the flour, spices, baking-powder and salt, all sifted together, and just before baking beat the whites of the eggs well and fold them lightly in. Bake in small pans in moderate oven not over-filling the pans. B. A. W. AUNT FANNY'S TEA CAKES. Beat three eggs to a foam, add one cupful of sugar, five tablespoonfuls of melted butter, ten tablespoonfuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking- powder and three cupfuls of flour. Flavor with lemon extract. Bake in patty pans. Rose Norden. MRS. WORTHINQTON'S COFFEE CAKE. One cupful of white sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of liquid coffee, one-half cupful of molasses; never use syrup in cooking. Take the yolks of four eggs, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and soda, two and one-half cupfuls of unsifted flour. Bake in patty pans with a quick oven. M. W. CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE. (Made of Ko-nut. ) One-fourth cupful of Ko-nut, one-eighth of a teaspoonful of salt, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of cold water, one and one- quarter cupfuls of flour, one-quarter cupful of Baker's cocoa, three level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, three eggs, one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Cream Ko-nut, salt and sugar together, add yolks of eggs well beaten, then the water and lastly the flour, into which the baking-powder, cinna- mon and cocoa should be sifted. Fold in the stifi^y beaten whites of the eggs. Bake twenty minutes in muffin pans. Myrtie E. Robinson. CHOCOLATE GINGERBREAD FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. (Made of Ko-nut.) Use one cupful of molasses, add a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a teaspoonful of cold water, one-half teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ginger and salt, one-half cupful of cold water, two cupfuls of flour and two ounces of Baker's chocolate melted in two tablespoonfuls of Ko-nut. Bake in gem pans for twenty minutes. Myrtie E. Robinson. SPICE CAKES. (Made of Ko-nut.) One cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth teaspoon- ful each of salt, cinnamon, allspice and one-eighth of a teaspoonful o! paprica, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, two-thirds cupful of warm water 248 CAKES, one package of fig mince, three eggs, four cupfuls of flour, one-third cup- ful of Ko-nut melted. Bake in shallow pans twenty-five minutes. Myrtie E. Robinson. ENGLISH WAFERS. Beat the whites and yolks of six eggs separately, then pour in six tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of flour and two tablespoon- fuls of arrow-root. Flavor to taste. Willa K. EVERY-DAY TEA CAKES. One and one-half cupfuls of white sugar, two eggs, one-half cupful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sweet milk (if you have none use water), two cupfuls of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Beat the sugar, butter and eggs together and lastly the flour with the baking- powder sifted together. Flavor to taste (I generally use nutmeg). Bake in gem tins in a quick oven. Mrs. M. L. Lockwood. SPRENQELA. Four cupfuls of powdered sugar, eight eggs. Stir one-half hour; beat whites separately. Take two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, the rind of two lemons, flour enough to roll out. Cut them out with a cake-cutter and let lie over night. Then sprinkle anise seed over them and bake. M. O. Baldwin. PEPPER NUTS. Take four cupfuls of fine sugar, eight eggs, stirring them for nearly one-half hour. Beat whites by themselves; rind of two lemons, two tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder, flour enough to roll, two teaspoonfuls of cin- namon, one teaspoonful of ground cloves, one teaspoonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg

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