Plain Cookies

Name: Plain Cookies
Ingredients: One cup of butter; one heaping cup of sugar; one cup of cold water (or, better, sour milk); a teaspoon a little more than evenly full of ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus); mix in sifted flour until they will keep their shape

From Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes, 1900

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN COOKIES. MRS. MATTIE BALLARD, TACOMA, WASH. One cup of butter, one heaping cup of sugar, one cup of cold water (or, better, sour milk) in which a teaspoon a little more than evenly full of ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus) has been dissolved; mix in sifted flour until they will keep their shape

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