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Vanilla Wafers
From Kentucky receipt book, 1903
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1903. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Vanilla Wafers. Pour ounces of powdered sugar and 4 ounces of butter rubbed to a cream, stir in 1 eg^, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 3 tablespoons of milk and 4 ounces of sifted flour. Drop by spoonful on greased tin. Orange Teacakes. One cup of butter, 4 eggs, 2 cups of sugar ; take the sugar first and squeeze juice of 1 orange over it, then cream, sugar and butter together ; add' a litle nutmeg. Break the eggs into the sugar and butter ; sift 3 teaspoons of yeast powder into 3 pints of flour, then sift flour into the batter, stir until stiff. Add more flour and knead with the hands. Roll out and cut with cake-cutter. White Heather Cake. One cup granulated sugar, % cup of butter, % cup cold water, 1% cups flour, 1 teaspoon extract of almond, 1 teaspoon baking pow- der, 3 eggs. Mix as usual and bake in jelly tins in a hot oven. Filling for Cake. Boil 1^ cups granulated sugar with 6 tablespoons of water 16 242 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. until it threads. Have white of 1 egg
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