r in 1 tablespoon ginger, 1/2 teaspoon saleratus,
dissolved in a little hot water, and flour enough to roll out. Take
small pieces at a time to roll out.
=Rich Cookies.=
Yolks of 6 eggs, 1/2 roll butter, 1 cup bar sugar, 2-1/2 cups flour. Put
a little of the flour in a deep dish, then add some egg, some butter and
some sugar; then more flour, more egg and more sugar and butter until
the entire amount of ingredients have been used. Roll thin, flour pans
well and put in the cookies, which have been cut into forms and
feathered with whites of egg, sugar and grated almonds. Not too quick an
oven.
=Hearts and Rounds.=
1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 5 eggs, 2 even
teaspoons cream tartar, 1 of soda. Flavor with vanilla or lemon.
=Crullers.=
4 eggs, 5 large spoons melted butter, 4 of milk, 8 of sugar, 1 small
teaspoon soda in milk.
=Doughnuts.=
4 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 of milk, butter size of an egg, 2 teaspoons
yeast powder, a little salt. Season to taste, cinnamon and mace.
=Gingerbread.=
1-1/2 cups sugar, 1/4 pound butter, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1/2 teaspoon
soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 eggs, well beaten, 2-1/2 cups flour.
=Sugar Gingerbread.=
1 cup butter, 2 of sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon saleratus, 1 egg, 1
tablespoon ginger. Flour enough to roll very thin.
=Molasses Gingerbread.=
1 cup New Orleans molasses, 1 full teaspoon soda put in molasses, 3/4
cup melted butter or nice drippings, 1/3 cup milk, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons
ginger. Flour to stir, but not thick.
=Soft Gingerbread--No. 1.=
3-1/2 cups flour, well sifted, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, sifted in 2
teaspoons ginger, 1 cup molasses, 1 of brown sugar, 1/2 of butter, 1 of
milk, and 2 eggs, well beaten.
=Soft Gingerbread--No. 2.=
1-1/2 cups molasses, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 egg, 1
teaspoon soda and 1/2 cup flour. Add ginger and a little salt.
=Bread Cake.=
3 cups light dough, 3 of brown sugar, 1 of butter, 3 eggs, spices, fruit
and citron, 1 teaspoon soda. Raising or not, as you wish.
=Pork Cake.=
1/2 pound salt pork, chopped very fine, 1/2 cup warm water, mix with the
pork. Heaping cup brown sugar, 1 of molasses, spice to taste, 1-1/2 cups
raisins, 2 of currants, 1/4 pound citron, 2 eggs, flour to make a
batter stiffer than ordinary cake, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, and bake in
buttered tins.
=Lemon Honey for Cake.=
Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, small cup sug
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