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Original Recipe

One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, a small teacupful of sweet milk, half a grated nutmeg and five cups of sifted flour, in which there has been sifted with it two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix into a soft dough and cut into round cakes; roll the dough as thin as pie crust. Bake in a quick oven a light brown. These can be made of sour milk and a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, or sour or sweet cream can be used in place of butter. Water cookies made the same as above, using water in place of milk. Water cookies keep longer than milk cookies.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup of butter
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 1 grated nutmeg and five cups of sifted flour
  • 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
  • 1 soft dough and cut into round cakes
  • 1 quick oven a light brown
  • 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it

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Instructions

  1. 1

    One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, a _small_ teacupful of sweet milk, half a grated nutmeg and five cups of sifted flour, in which there has been sifted with it two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix into a soft dough and cut into round cakes; roll the dough as thin as pie crust.

  2. 2

    Bake in a quick oven a light brown.

  3. 3

    These can be made of sour milk and a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, or sour or sweet cream can be used in place of butter.

  4. 4

    Water cookies made the same as above, using water in place of milk.

  5. 5

    Water cookies keep longer than milk cookies.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)