Plantation Cookies
From Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes, 1922
Presented as published in 1922. 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 Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes (1922) by Emma McKinney, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
teaspoonful of salt. Mix in the order given adding the dry ingredients sifted together and enough more flour to make a dough just soft enough to handle. Have the board well-floured, and the fat for frying, heating. Roll out only a little at \ time, cut into rings with an open cutter. Do all the cutting before frying, as that will take your entire attention. The fat should be hot enough for the dough to rise to the top instantly. PLANTATION COOKIES 2 eggs, 1 cupful of sugar, \y2 cupfuls of oatmeal, or Rolled Oats, % cupful of cocoanut, 34 teaspoonful of salt, ^ teaspoonful of vanilla, 2 tablespoonsful of butter. Cream the butter and sugar together and add the well- beaten eggs. Add the remainder of the ingredients and drop on a well greased baking-pan. Bake in a moderate oven, from fifteen to twenty minutes. 46 MILADY'S FAVOURITE RECIPE AUNT CAROLINE'S DIXIELAND RECIPES 47 JELLY ROLL CAKE 4 eggs, 1 cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar, Yz teaspoonful of soda, Pinch of salt, Iteaspoonful of extract of Lemon. Beat together eggs and sugar, add salt and extract. Stir Into the dry flour the soda and cream of tartar. Mix all to- gether. Bake in a moderate oven, in a large pan, and turn out, when done, on a clean towiel, which has been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Spread with jelly and roll while warm. AUNT SUG'S NUT COOKIES One and one-half cups of sugar, One cup of crisco or butter. Three eggs. One tablespoonful of cinnamon. One-half teaspoonful of salt, One teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in four tablespoonful of hot water, Three cups of flour. One-cup each of raisins, currants, and English walnuts or almonds broken up. To well beaten eggs add creamed butter and sugar, cin- nam.on, soda, water, flour, fruits, which must be dredged with flour, and nuts. Lastly add one teaspoonful of vanilla
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