Sugar Cookies, No. 2

Ingredients

• Two eggs
• One nutmeg (grated)
• Three large tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder
• Flour to thicken
• Two cupfuls of sugar
• One-half cupful of butter
• One-half cupful of lard
• One cupful of milk
• One tea-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter, lard and sugar well together, and add the eggs, well beaten, the salt and the nutmeg.

2. 2

   Sift the powder in a little of the flour, add this and enough more flour to form a dough that may be rolled.

3. 3

   Then roll the dough, cut it out, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 221. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SUGAR COOKIES, NO. 2. Two eggs. One nutmeg (grated). Three large tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder. Flour to thicken. Two cupfuls of sugar. One-half cupful of butter. One-half cupful of lard. One cupful of milk. One tea-spoonful of salt

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