Rolled Wafers

Ingredients

• One-fourth cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup of sweet milk
• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar gradually and milk very slowly, then flour and flavoring.

2. 2

   Spread thinly with a broad blade knife on a buttered inverted pan.

3. 3

   Mark in 3-inch squares and bake in slow oven a delicate brown.

4. 4

   Place pan on back of range, cut squares apart with a sharp knife.

5. 5

   Roll while warm in tubular or cornucopia shape.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cups of flour, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in 2 layers in jelly tins. KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. 249 Lady Fingers. One-half ponjid of granulated sugar, 6 eggs, ^ teaspoon o* lemon extract, % pound of flour. Beat whites stiff; add to sugar and yelks ; then flour. Stir with an egg-beater ; cut and sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake in moderate oven. Strawberry Shortcake. Three eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon of but- ter, 1 even teaspoon of baking powder, % cup sweet milk. Beat but- ter and sugar together, then add eggs, well beaten. Sift baking pow- der into flour, then add the eggs and sugar. Add more milk if neces« sary. Bake in round pans. When cool cover top of each cake with whole strawberries and spread on them well-beaten cream that has been sweetened. Fill up all spaces with cream. Place the cakes on top of one another. The cream used must be very thick. Soft Ginger Bread. Break 3 eggs, whites and yolks, into a pan, add 2 cups of brown sugar and beat light, add 1 cup of common molasses, 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup melted butter, 4 cups of sifted flour, 1 tablespoon of ginger, cloves and allspice to taste, 1 teaspoon of soda in the but- termilk and beat in the last thing. Bride's Cake. W,hites of 14 eggs, 1 pound of sugar, 1 pound of flour, % pounCl of butter. Eggs and sugar well beaten together and mix in the but- ter, well creamed, flour and whites alternately; flavor to taste. Strawberry Shortcake. Not quite % pint of flour, 1 dessertspoon lard, 1 teacup ice water, % teaspoon baking powder, a litle salt. Mix in a bowl and put through the kneader, bake in pie pans. When done split the pie in half and cover with melted butter and 1 quart of berries thai; have been chopped and sweetened. Rolled Wafers. One-fourth cup of butter, % cup of powdered sugar, ^ cup of sweet milk, % of a cup of flour, % teaspoon of vanilla.

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