Rich Jumbles

Ingredients

• two pounds of flour
• one pound of sugar
• three-fourths cupful of butter
• four eggs
• one-half cupful of cream
• one tea-spoonful of baking-powder
• a little nutmeg
• a few drops of bitter almonds

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 18 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a few drops of bitter almonds. JUMBLES. Take three eggs beaten separately, then whipped togeth- er, one pint of white sugar, one pint of butter or lard, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder, one gill of sweet milk (or soda and sour milk), one grated nutmeg, flour enough to make it roll. Bake in a quick oven. JUMBLES. Take five eggs, two and one-half cupfuls of white sugar, one cupful of sour milk, one tea-spoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, one cupful of butter, one table-spoonful of lard, one nutmeg. Make into a soft dough, roll thin, and bake in a quick oven. RICH JUMBLES. Take two pounds of flour, one pound of sugar, three- fourths cupful of butter, four eggs beaten very light, one- half cupful of cream, one tea-spoonful of baking-powder. Flavor with a little nutmeg

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