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Crisp Cookies

1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar

3 eggs well beaten

1/2 teaspoon soda

1 “ “ cream tartar

1 “ “ nutmeg, 1 teasp. cinnamon

3 cup flour. Wine or whiskey

enough to make the dough soft

to roll cut. Spread with sweet

milk & sugar.

 

Hermits

3 eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 1/2 gr. sugar*

1 cup seed & chopped raisins

1 “ chopped walnuts, 1 teasp.

cloves, 1 of allspice & one of cinnamon

Enough flour to roll, 1/2 teasp. baking

powder. Half nut placed on

top of each cake. Butter pans &

flour before putting in cakes.

 

* “gr.” is an abbreviation for grain, an archaic weight measurement. 1 1/2 grains = 0.01grams

 

Excellent Fruit Cake. Mother.

1 cup butter, 2 cups brown sugar

1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon each of cloves

cinnamon & allspice, 1 cup strong coffee

4 1/2 cups flour. 4 eggs, 2 teasp. soda, 2 lbs.

raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1/4 lb. citron, 1 lb. orange

peel & lemon peel.

 

Done