Treacle Cookies

Ingredients

• one cup of treacle
• one cup of brown sugar
• one cup of lard
• one half of boiling water
• one spoonful of ginger
• one spoonful of soda
• one spoonful of salt
• flour enough to roll

Method

1. 1

   Beat sugar, lard, treacle, soda, and ginger together; pour on boiling water and mix in flour.

2. 2

   Roll thick and cut into round cakes, then bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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