Sour Milk Cookies

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• Two cupfuls of sugar
• Two-thirds cupful of sour milk
• Two eggs
• One lemon (rind and two tea-spoonfuls of juice)
• One tea-spoonful of soda
• Two tea-spoonfuls of cold water
• Flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and the sugar together, and add the eggs, well beaten, the rind of the lemon and the required quantity of juice.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda in the cold water, turn it into the milk, and stir both into the mixture.

3. 3

   Add flour to thicken, roll out and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 222. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SOUR MILK COOKIES. One cupful of butter. Two cupfuls of sugar. Two-thirds cupful of sour milk. Flour to thicken. Two eggs. One lemon (rind and two tea-spoonfuls of juice). One tea-spoonful of soda. Two tea-spoonfuls of cold water

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