Maple Cookies
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add the well-beaten egg, and mix well.
Add the sour cream, salt, and the baking soda dissolved in hot water.
Stir in sufficient flour to make a consistency right to drop from a spoon.
Drop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet, grate some maple sugar on top of each cookie, and bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 minutes.
Original recipe, verbatim
Maple Cookies
1 egg 1 teaspoonful baking soda
1 cupful sugar 3 tablespoonfuls hot water
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco ^ teaspoonful salt
1 cupful sour cream Flour
Maple sugar
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, mix well,
add cream, salt, soda dissolved in water, and sufiicient flour to make of
right consistency to drop from spoon. Grate some maple sugar on each
cookie and bake in moderate oven eight minutes.
Sufficient for forty 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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