Vanilla Wafers

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 tablesp sweet cream
• 1 scant tablesp vanilla
• 1½ teasp cream tartar
• scant ½ teasp soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter with sugar, add egg, cream, vanilla, cream tartar, and soda sifted with enough flour to roll.

2. 2

   Roll very thin and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vanilla Wafers Cream y2 cup butter with 1 cup sugar (or use lard and but- ter mixed), add 1 egg, 4 tablesp sweet cream, 1 scant tablesp vanilla, 1 y2 teasp cream tartar and scant % teasp soda, sifted with flour enough to roll. Roll very thin and bake quickly. These are fine. — [Mrs. A. S., N. H. Ice Cream Wafers Make a meringue of the thoroughly beaten whites of 2 €ggs, pinch salt and 2 tablesp powdered sugar, then add % cup chopped nut meats and spread this mixture on plain wafers or salted crackers, and bake only just long enough to cook the meringue. This is nice to serve with ice cream. — [Mrs. A. J. P., Wis. GRAHAM AND NUT WAFERS 65 Wheat Wafers To 1 pt whole-wheat flour add % teasp salt, rub in 1 tablesp butter and make into a stiff dough with milk. Break off bits size of a walnut, and roll very thin. Bake in a hot oven until a golden brown. — [E. E. K., Mass. Peanut Wafers Cream 2 tablesp butter with % cup sugar, add 1 well-beaten egg, 2 tablesp milk, i/^ cup flour sifted with 1 level teasp bak- ing powder, and 14 teasp salt. Flavor with 1 teasp lemon juice, and last of all mix in V2 cup finely chopped peanuts. Drop by spoonsful on ungreased pans about 1 inch apart, and place half a peanut on top of each wafer. Bake about 12 min- utes in a moderate oven. This recipe will make 24 wafers. — [K. A. D., N. D. Walnut Wafers To 2 well-beaten eggs, add % lb each white sugar and brown sugar, 5^ tablesp flour sifted with ^ teasp baking powder and y2 teasp salt, and ^^ cup black walnut meats, cut fine. Drop by spoonsful on greased pans and bake. — [C. B. O., Kan. Delmonico Cakes Grate % cake (1 cup) unsweetened chocolate into a bowl, then pour over it V2 cup boiling water in which 1 teasp soda was dissolved. Let this mixture stand while preparing the following: Cream % cup butter

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