Vanilla Wafers

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 14 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• two cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• y2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream shortening and add gradually while beating constantly, then add egg, milk, and vanilla.

2. 2

   Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

3. 3

   Add to first mixture, roll out on a floured board as thinly as possible, shape with a small round cutter.

4. 4

   Place on buttered tins and bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vanilla Wafers. Cream 1/3 cup shortening (using butter and lard in equal proportion or all butter) and add gradually while beating constantly, one cup sugar, then add 1 egg well beaten, 14 cup milk and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix and sift two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder and y2 teaspoon salt. Add to first mixture, roll out on a floured board as thinly as possible shape with a small round cutter. Place on buttered tins and bake in a moderate oven. MRS. WM. HABENICHT. Lebkuc&en. 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 8 eggs, the whites of two of them kept back for icing; 1 cup molasses; 1% plate German Sweet Chocolate; y2 cup of cut citron; 1 cup cut almonds; 1 cup pecans; 3 cups flour; 2 heap- ing teaspoonfuls baking powder; 1 teaspoonful of each cinnaman, cloves, allspice, nutmeg. This is to be baked in an 18 inch pan, when cool cut into 2 inch squares and cover with icing. MRS. R. C. LUDWIG. Graham Nut Cookies. Cream iy2 cups sugar and 2/3 cups lard. Add 2 eggs well beaten; 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; 1 level teaspoon of soda dissolved in % cup — Ill — sour milk; 1 cup nuts chopped fine; 1 cup shredded cocoanut. Stir in 2V2 cups sifted graham flour and drop from teaspoon on greased tins. ELLA EVEES. Peanut Cookies. 3 tablespoons shortening; V2 cup sugar; 1 egg; teaspoon salt ; % cup peanuts, roasted and chopped fine ; l1 cup flour; 2 tablespoons milk; y2 teaspoon soda; juice of y2 lemon. Cream shortening and sugar, add beaten eggs. Sift flour, salt and soda, add to other ingredients. Then add milk, peanuts and lemon juice. Drop from tea- spoon, on greased tins. MRS. WALTER MECKEL. — 112 — Layer Cakes. Caramel Cake. iy2 cups sugar; y2 CUP butter; yolks of 2 eggs; 1 cup water; 2 cups flour; 3 teaspoonfuls cool caramel syrup ; 1 teaspoonful vanilla ; y2 cup flour : 2 teaspoon- fuls baking powder; stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs. Mix well the first five ingredients, adding the others as given. The cake may be baked as a layer cake in a moderate oven, and put together with the follow- ing filling. FILLING: 1 cup sugar

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