Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• One cup sugar
• one-half cup butter
• three tablespoonfuls milk
• one egg
• one cup flour
• one teaspoonful baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar to a cream, work in the beaten egg, milk and flour, roll out thin and cut into cakes.

2. 2

   Bake crisp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sugar Cookies. Two cups sugar, one cup milk, three-fourths cup butter, four cups flour, two eggs, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, drop in tins, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon before baking. Mrs. J. Morton. 194 New Century Cook Book. Sugar Cookies. One cup sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one-half cup sour milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one-half nutmeg, mix with enough flour to make a soft dough, roll thin, sprinkle with sugar and bake in a very quick oven. Mrs. B. E. Arntzen. Cookies (Crisp). One cup butter, two cups sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar, one spoonful milk, one tea- spoon each of nutmeg and cinnamon, flour enough to make soft dough, a little sweet milk over each, also sprinkle of sugar. Bake in quick oven. Mrs. Campbell. White Cookies. Two eggs, heaping cup sugar, one cup sour milk, one cup butter, one teaspoonful baking soda, enough flour to roll soft. Mrs. Bovee. Cookies. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three eggs, one-half tea- spoon soda, three tablespoons milk, vanilla or nutmeg. Mrs. Barrett. Almond Cookies. One-half pound sugar, one-half pound butter, four eggs, nine ounces flour, two teaspoonfuls Dr. Price's baking powder; bake in very thin sheets; before being put in oven, sprinkle with sugar and sliced almonds. Almonds may be grated or pounded if preferred. Mrs. D. S. Fruit Cookies Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three eggs, one tea- spoon of cloves, one of cinnamon and one of nutmeg, one tea- spoon of soda, one tablespoon of sour cream, one-half teacup of raisins and one-half teacup of currants. Flour enough to make stiff; roll thin. Mrs. F. Sanford. Ginger Cookies. One cup sugar, one cup molasses, three-quarters cup but- ter, two teaspoons soda, dissolved in three tablespoons hot water, one-half tablespoon ginger, one-half tablespoon cinnamon. Mix very soft; bake in quick oven. Mrs. W. Everett. New Century Cook Book. 195 Ginger Cookies. One cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of lard, three eggs, one tablespoon of soda, one tablespoon of ginger, one tablespoon of vinegar, two tablespoons of water. Mrs. I. J. Hanmer. Cookies Without Eggs. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one even teaspoonful soda. Mrs. A. W. Martin. Sugar Cookies. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, three tablespoonfuls milk, one egg, one cup flour, one teaspoonful baking powder

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