Spice Cookies
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Beat eggs for 5 minutes, add brown sugar and beat for another 5 minutes.
Add shortening and beat until thoroughly mixed.
Mix in molasses, sour milk, baking soda, salt, spices, baking powder, and enough flour to form a stiff dough.
Cover and let the mixture rest in a bowl until the following day.
Roll out portions of the dough, cut with a small cookie cutter, and place on greased baking sheets.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 7 to 10 minutes.
Original recipe, verbatim
Spice Cookies
3 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt
Xy^ cupfuls brown sugar 1 teaspoonful powdered
1 cupful Crisco cinnamon
1 cupful molasses 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
yi cupful sour milk 1 teaspoonful powdered cloves
2 teaspoonfuls baking soda 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
yi teaspoonful black pepper yi teaspoonful baking powder
Flour to make a stiff dough
Beat eggs five minutes, then add sugar and beat five minutes, then
add Crisco and beat until thoroughly mixed, add molasses, milk, soda,
salt, spices, baking powder, and enough flour to make stiff dough. Leave
mixture in basin until following day. Take pieces of dough and roll out,
cut with small cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven
from seven to ten minutes.
Sufficient for ninety 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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