White Cookies

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• 14 cups sugar
• 14 cups butter
• $ cup milk
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 2 teaspoons cream tartar

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together, beat eggs well and add to butter and sugar.

2. 2

   Put soda and cream tartar with the milk and pour over the butter, etc.

3. 3

   Then add flour till stiff enough to roll out nicely; flour your board pretty well when rolling out.

4. 4

   Butter your pans (or lard or dripping will do).

5. 5

   A quick oven is required to make them nice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE COOKIES.—Three eggs, 14 cups sugar, 14 cups butter, $ cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream 144 CAKES, tartar. Cream butter and sugar together, beat eggs well ‘and add to butter and sugar. Put soda and cream tartar with the milk and pour over the butter, ete. Then add flour till stiff enough to roll out nicely; flour your board pretty well when rolling out. Butter your pans (or lard or dripping will do). A quick oven is required to make them nice. Mrs. Harrison. BREAKFAST CAKE.—Take 1 pint bread sponge, knead into it 2 tablespoons butter, $ cup sugar, and | tea- spoon cinnamon or twice as much vanilla or lemon extract. Roll into a sheet 2 inches thick. Moisten the top with sweet milk to which has been added a little sugar. Let it rise 2 hours and bake in a moderate oven. WALNUT CAKE.—Half cup butter (boiling), 2 eggs, 1 cup white sugar, } cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 14 cups flour, $ cup walnuts chopped fine. COCOANUT CAKE.—CGrate finely 2 gcod fresh cocoa- nuts and mix the pulp with an equal weight of pounded loaf sugar, 4 teacup of ground rice and 3 eggs. Stir this all well together with a fork, drop it in little heaps on a baking sheet and bake. Mrs. BoyYeEr. SEED CAKE—One good cup brown sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, $ cup lard and butter mixed, 2 teaspoons caraway seeds, more if you please. M. A. ROGERSON. SPONGE CAKE.—Two eggs well beaten together, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup four, 1 teaspoon baking powder, $ cup (small) boiling water. Mrs. C. H. Ross. COOKIKS.—-Four eggs, 2 small cups of sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 tablespoons milk, 2 teaspoons cream tartar

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