Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Bake in thin strips and cut into diamonds while hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cups flour 1 cup walnuts 2 eggs 1 cup dates or figs 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon Drop by small teaspoonfuls into buttered tins. Ruth Thomburgh (Gamma). Fruited Cookies 1 cup butter \ , , . } cream ly2 cups sugar J 3 eggs, beaten light 13^ tablespoons hot water with 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon }/2 teaspoon salt 3^ cup nutmeats, chopped }/2 cup raisins, chopped }/2 cup currants, chopped Syz cups flour Roll thin and bake in quick oven. Marguerite Way (Lambda Nu). COOKIES 165 Fruit and Nut Cookies 1^ cups brown sugar 1 cup nuts 1 cup butter 2]/^ cups flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3/^ cup cold coffee 1 nutmeg \}/2 cups raisins 3^ teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda in coffee Mix as for a cake and drop from a spoon into pans. Bake in a quick oven. Raisins, currants, walnuts, dates or figs may be added. Florence Klinkenberg (Xi). Ginger Cookies 1 pint molasses Let come to a boil, then add, 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon soda little salt 1 tablespoon ginger After it cools, thicken with flour. Roll* thin and bake. Julia B. Gould (Lambda Nu). Ginger Snaps 1 cup molasses 2 teaspoons ginger 3^ cup sugar 1 teaspoon soda ^ cup softened butter (part lard may be used) flour enough to make a thin dough Heat molasses and pour over sugar. Then add other ingredients and bake quickly. Dorothy Mill (Phi). Ginger Snaps }/2 cup granulated sugar 1 level teaspoon soda ]/2 cup molasses 3 teaspoons ginger ]/^ cup melted lard 3 cups flour 3 tablespoons hot water Put soda in with flour. Roll and cut with knife in oblongs and bake in hot oven. Minnie Stinchfield Brown (Lambda Nu). 166 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Ice Box Cookies 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon cloves 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt 3 eggs 6}/2 cups flour 1 level teaspoon soda in two tablespoons hot water }4: pound walnuts or almonds, broken up Cream the butter, lard and sugar. Add the other ingredients in their order. Thi& mixes into a stiff dough which you put into a bread tin and stand in the ice box over night. In the morning put the loaf on the bread board and slice in thin slices as you would any meat loaf. Bake on cookie sheet in quick oven. This makes a good many but they keep nicely. Julia Gould (Lambda Nu). Lace Curtain Cookies 1 cup sugar salt 1 tablespoon butter, creamed 23^ cups oatmeal 2 eggs, beaten separately 2 teaspoons baking powder Drop onto tins and bake in hot oven. Unsigned (Kappa). Marshmallow Cookies Rub one-half cup butter to a cream. Add four tablespoons cocoa, yolks three eggs beaten, and one-half cup water. Then incorporate beaten whites of eggs and one and one-half cups flour, sifted with three tablespoons baking powder. Bake in small tins ; when done cover with boiled frosting and press into top of each a marshamallow or two. Ethel Richter Megeath (Lambda). Molasses Cookies 2 cups molasses 1 egg little ginger or cinnamon 10 tablespoons hot water 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons soda 12 tablespoons shortening 5 or 6 cups flour Stir up and let stand an hour before baking. Theodora Carpenter (Lambda). COOKIES 167 Nut Cookies 2 tablespoons butter }/i teaspoon salt ^ cup sugar Yi cup flour 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon baking powder lemon or vanilla Yi cup finely chopped nuts Cream the butter, add sugar and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt and flour, add to first mixture, then add milk, nuts and flavoring. Drop the mixture from a teaspoon on an unbut- tered sheet an inch apart. Bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven. This recipe will make twenty-four cookies. Margaret W. Price (Chi Sigma). Oatmeal Cookies 2Y2 cups oatmeal, ground 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup brown sugar salt Y cup hot water cinnamon 23^2 cups flour yi cup shortening Add all ingredients except flour and water. Pour hot water in mixing dish, then add flour. Roll out thin, cut in strips. If you wish, make a paste of dates and a little water. Spread on strips and bake. Cover with another strip before baking. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Pineapple Cookies ^ cup butter, scant 23^ cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 eggs Y cup pineapple 2 tablespoons cream Y2 cup pineapple juice 2 teaspoons baking powder, heaping 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, slightly beaten, then pine- apple and juice. Sift into this flour and baking powder. Add cream and vanilla. Drop from spoon onto buttered pan and bake in moderate oven. If not stiff enough to make good drop cakes, add more flour. Irma Child Browne (Beta). 108 DELTA OAMMA COOK HOOK Rnisiii Cookies, Children's Delight 1 cup Bour crt'Miu 1 cup migar 1 <(visp()()ii soda I (»g^ 1 pinch smII. I'lnoiigh (lour to roll well, nboul four cups. Koll thin, spread one pound choppcMl raisiiis, douhh* over, roll slif!;hlly. Cut in scpiaros aiul bake in hot oven. A^;n(>s Clay pole Moody (Chi). Shredded Wheat Cookies 1 cup \vhit(> su^;ar 2 onj^s I cup brown su,i!::tr 1 (caspoou sod.a in • '2 cup lard } 2 <'iip i^<'*i^" '>>il'^ J-'i cup butter 3 cups of (lour (» shr(>dd(>d wheat cak(\s, rolhul Droj) the batter into pans aecordini>; to size of cooky desired. lOlaino Shields (Xi). Sour Cream Cookies crt>ani ' -j cup butter and 1 cup sugar 1 beaten egg 2^^ cujis flour y^2 t'*'P thick sinu' i'ri\'uu S^-'j teaspoiuis baking pow- }-4 tt'Mspmtn soila der IU>at wt>ll into first niixtunv Atid ouc ti>asp«Hm vanilla. Prop from spi>on ou buttered pans. Mrs. Mac Sun\uer (Kta l^psilon). Sugar Cookies 1 cup sugar '2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cuj) butter 3 eggs

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