Sugar Cookies No. 3
From The national course in home economics, 1917
Serves 36
Keep in stone jars. They are fine. Mrs. M. E. Hilton.
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This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 183. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SUGAR COOKIES— No. 3. Use two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of lard stirred to a cream, two eggs beaten in a coffee cup, then fill it up with sweet milk; salt, and flavor with nutmeg or vanilla, one level teaspoonful of soda in two tablespoon- fuls of scalding water or two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Mix in a mass; bake quickly and keep in stone jars. They are fine. Mrs. M. E. Hilton. SUGAR COOKIES— No. 4. Five eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of lard, salt to taste. Use on heaping tablespoonful of baking-powder, one nutmeg grated, two tea- spoonfuls of lemon extract. Flour sufficient to make a paste that will roll out
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