Sweet Crackers

Ingredients

• one cup of lard
• one and one-half cups of sugar
• two eggs well beaten
• one pint of sweet milk
• five cents' worth of the oil of lemon
• three tablespoonfuls of baking ammonia

Method

1. 1

   Mix lard and sugar, then add eggs, milk, ammonia, and lemon to form a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Roll thin, cut into squares, and stick together.

3. 3

   Let ammonia evaporate for a few hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SWEET CRACKERS. One cup of lard, one and one-half cups of sugar, two eggs well beaten, one pint of sweet milk, five cents' worth of the oil of lemon and three tablespoonfuls of baking ammonia

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