Sugar Cookies, No. I

Ingredients

• Eight table-spoonfuls of sugar
• Six table-sijoonfuls of melted butter
• Four table-spoonfuls of milk
• Two eggs
• Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder
• Flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter into the sugar; beat the eggs light, and add them to the butter and sugar, stirring well; then add the milk.

2. 2

   Sift the powder with a little of the flour, and stir this in, adding enough more flour to admit of rolling out the dough.

3. 3

   Place the latter on a well floured board and roll it thin; then cut out the cookies with a cutter, dip each one in granulated sugar as soon as cut, 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. I. Eight table-spoonfuls of sugar. Six table-sijoonfuls of melted butter. 506 THE PA TTERN COOK-BOOK, Four table-spoonfuls of milk. Two eggs. Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder. Flour to thicken

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