Best Jumbles
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
Not kitchen-tested. No ratings, no reviews. The original text is transcribed from a historical book. The modern version is adapted with computer assistance.
Ingredients
Method
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together.
Gradually add well-beaten eggs.
Add milk, almond extract, rose extract, flour, salt, and baking powder.
Mix and roll out lightly on a floured baking board.
Cut into circles with a doughnut cutter, lay on greased tins, and bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 7 to 10 minutes or until light brown.
Original recipe, verbatim
Best Jumbles
2 cupfuls sugar 3 tablespoonfuls milk
1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt
4 eggs 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful almond extract
1 teaspoonful rose extract
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then gradually add eggs
well beaten, now add milk, extracts, flour, salt and baking powder. Mix
97
Breads, etc.
and roll out lightly on floured baking board; cut into circles with dough-
nut cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from seven to
ten minutes or till light brown. These cookies will keep fresh two weeks,
and if milk is left out, a month.
Sufficient for seventy jumbles.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
Not shown: too few ingredients matched to estimate responsibly.