Fruit Cookies
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Cream Crisco and brown sugar together.
Add salt, well-beaten eggs, soda mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make a stiff dough.
Roll out, cut with a cooky cutter, and place on greased baking tins.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 12 minutes.
Original recipe, verbatim
Fruit Cookies
1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful powdered
2 cupfuls brown sugar cinnamon
1 cupful Crisco yi teaspoonful powdered allspice
1 cupful chopped raisins 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1 cupful chopped English l}4 teaspoonfuls baking soda
walnut meats 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk
3 eggs Flour
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, soda
mixed with milk, spices, raisins, nuts, and enough flour to make stifi" dough.
About 5 cupfuls flour will be sufficient. Roll out, cut with cooky cutter,
lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.
Sufficient for sixty cookies.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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