Royal Cookies
From Royal baker and pastry cook, 1913
Presented as published in 1913. 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 Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
OYAL COOKIES. — 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 5 eggs, l A pints flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup milk. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs smooth; add flour sifted with powder, and milk; mix into dough, soft enough to handle conveniently; flour the board, roll out dough, thin ; cut out with biscuit-cutter; lay on greased baking- tin, bake in hot oven 5 or 6 minutes. Anise-seed Cakes. — 8 eggs, 1 pound sugar, 1 scant pound flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, pinch salt, 1 tablespoon anise-seed. Beat eggs and sugar together 30 minutes, then add anise, flour mixed with powder, and roll out thin. Cut in fancy shapes and bake on flat tins in quick oven. Albert Cakes. — Yolks 6 eggs, white 1 egg, 5 ounces sugar, 5A ounces blanched and chopped almonds, 3 ounces flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 ounce chopped can¬ died orange peel, A teaspoon extract cinna¬ mon, pinch cloves, grated rind A. lemon. Bake in small patty-pans in moderate oven. Buttercups. — 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, yolks 9 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, A cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Bake in patty-pans, ice with boiled icing, tinted yellow. Little Spice Cakes. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon black coffee, A teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon, 1 tea¬ spoon extract nutmeg, 2 ounces corn-starch, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Pow¬ der. Mix as for cakes with butter, and bake in patty-pans in a hot oven. Spencer Cakes. — 2 cups sugar, 8 eggs, 1 A pints flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons coriander-seed, 1 teaspoon ex¬ tract lemon.* Beat eggs and sugar together, until they get thick and white; add flour sifted with pow'der, the seed, and extract; mix into rather thick sponge ; drop in spoon¬ fuls on greased tin, bake in hot oven 5 or 6 minutes. ROYAL BAKING POWDER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY COOK 15 Peanut Jumbles. — 1A cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 6 eggs, 1 A pints flour
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