COOKIES, MUFFINS, ETC.
No. 1. EGGLESS COOKIES
2 cups sour cream 6 cups flour 3 cups sugar |
1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspon cinnamon ½ teaspoon soda |
Put flour in a mixing pan, making a hollow in the center into which put the sugar, salt and cinnamon; dissolve soda in the sour cream and add; stir with a spoon till most of the flour is stirred in; mix in the rest of the flour with the hands; roll in a thin sheet; use round cutter; hot oven.
No. 2. GINGER SNAPS
1 cup molasses 1 cup sugar ½ cup butter ½ cup hot water |
1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon cloves |
Mix sugar, molasses and butter; dissolve soda in a little hot water and add; mix the spices with enough flour to make a stiff dough; roll very thin and cut with a small round cutter and bake in a hot oven.
No. 3. MOLASSES COOKIES
1 cup lard 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses 4½ cups flour |
2 teaspoons soda ½ cup boiling water ½ teaspoon cloves ½ teaspoon cinnamon |
½ teaspoon ginger
Cream lard and sugar; add molasses, then soda dissolved in the boiling water; mix the spices with 4 cups of flour and stir into mixture, using the other ½ cup of flour to roll out the dough; roll thin; cut out with large cutter and bake in a hot oven.
No. 4. GINGER COOKIES
2 cups molasses 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup lard |
2 teaspoons cream of tar ½ cup coffee 1 teaspoon ginger |
pinch of salt
Mix sugar with molasses, then add salt, shortening, ginger, coffee and cream of tartar; add enough flour to roll thin; cut with a cookie cutter and bake 20 or 30 minutes in a hot oven.
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