Super Cookies

Ingredients

• Butter, 1 cup
• Sugar, 2 cups
• Eggs, 2
• Cream, 4 tablespoons
• Baking-powder, 2 teaspoons
• Flour.

Method

1. 1

   Use only as much flour as may be required to roll them out.

2. 2

   Roll thin, and bake quick.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Around-the-world cook book (1913) by Mary Louise Barroll, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter, 1 cup, Sugar, 1^ cup, Eggs, 3, Flour, 31/^ cups, Ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Nut-meats, 1 cup. Dates, 1 pound. Mix the butter, sugar, and eggs, and beat all to a cream; add the spices, flour, nut-meats, and dates cut fine, and bake on buttered tins. 251 CAKE AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK MARZIPAN GERMAN Almonds, 1 pound, Powdered sugar, 1 pound, Rosewater. Blanch the almonds, and when perfectly dry, pound them, or grind them fine in a meat chopper, and add to this grad- ually, the sugar and rosewater. Cover a board thickly with powdered sugar, and on this, with the fingers, knead thor- oughly the mixture. Allow the mixture to remain on the board for an hour after kneading, and then roll it out to the thickness of about l^ inch, and cut into small fancy shapes and allow these to harden. If so desired the mixture may be pressed into a figured mold, and there allowed to harden, and then be turned out. This does not require cooking, but may be placed in the oven for a few moments to dry. SCOTCH SHORT-CAKE Butter, % pound, Flour, 1 pound, Powdered sugar, 1 pound, Cinnamon, 1 tablespoon, Eggs, 3. Rub the butter and flour together; mix in the powdered sugar and the cinnamon. Mix into a dough with the 3 eggs well beaten, and roll it out into a sheet. Cut into round cakes, and bake in a quick oven. They will require but a few minutes. 252 AROUNDTHE-WORLD COOK BOOK CAKE SUPEEIOE COOKIES Butter, 1 cup, Sugar, 2 cups, Eggs, 2, Cream, 4 tablespoons, Baking-powder, 2 teaspoons, Flour.

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