Walnut Wafers

Ingredients

• one-half cupful of brown sugar
• one-half cupful of white
• one-half cupful of butter
• the beaten yolks of three eggs
• one-half cupful of New Orleans molasses
• one-half cupful of sifted flour
• one-half of a walnut

Method

1. 1

   Mix brown sugar with white sugar and cream with butter.

2. 2

   Add beaten yolks and beat hard; then add molasses, and last of all, sifted flour.

3. 3

   Drop teaspoonfuls of the batter on a greased baking-tin, place walnuts on each, and bake in a very slow oven until brown, about ten minutes.

4. 4

   Keep in a covered tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WALNUT WAFERS — Mix one-half cupful of brown sugar with one-half cupful of white, and cream with one-half cupful of butter. When smooth, add the beaten yolks of three eggs and beat hard ; then one-half cupful of New Orleans mo- lasses, and, last of all, one-half cupful of sifted flour. Drop teaspoonfuls of the batter on a greased baking-tin, about two inches apart ; place one-half of a walnut

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