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Plain Cookies

From Six little cooks, 1910

For richer cookies, use half a pound of butter.

Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN COOKIES. One pound flour, one-half do. sugar, six oz. butter, three eggs, one teaspoon soda, a little nutmeg or other spice

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