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of vanilla, 4 eggs, 1 saltspoonful of salt, 1 quart of flour, and 1 teaspoonful
of baking powder. Beat the eggs very light with the sugar, then add butter,
milk, and vanilla, lastly the flour sifted with the baking powder, making a very
stiff dough. Drop little portions of it into a greased pan with plenty of space
between them. Bake quickly. If the heat is right, and the batter stiff enough,
they will raise in the middle, giving them a very pretty shape.
35. Wafers. 1/4 pound of butter, 1/2 pound of pulverized sugar, and 3 even
tablespoonfuls of flour. Flavor with rosewater, and spread in thin cakes in a
dripping pan. Bake, and while still hot roll them and powder with sugar. They
must be rolled at once as they bake quickly.
36. Vanilla Snaps. 1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar, 2 large teaspoonfuls of milk, 2 eggs,
3 teaspoonfuls of vanilla, 1 cupful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder,
and 3 cupfuls of flour. Cream butter and sugar, add milk, eggs beaten lightly,
and vanilla. Sift together the flour and the baking powder. Mix with the flour
to a soft dough, and roll thin. Sprinkle with pulverized sugar before baking.
37. Spice Ginger Cake. 5 eggs, 2 cupfuls of butter, 4 cupfuls of flour, 2
cupfuls of sugar, 1 cup not quite full of molasses, with a teaspoonful of soda
stirred into it until it foams from the bottom; a wine-glass of brandy, 1
tablespoonful of ginger, 1 tablespoonful of cinnamon, and 1 tablespoonful of
allspice and cloves mixed. Add the beaten whites of the eggs last, then the
molasses. Fruit may be added.
38. Fruit Ginger Cake. 1 pound of flour, 1 cupful of sugar, 2 cupfuls of
molasses, 1/2 pound of butter, 6 eggs, 1 pound of currants, the same of raisins,
1/2 pound of citron, 1 tablespoonful of ginger. 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon and
allspice, 1 teaspoonful of soda, and 2 tea spoonfuls of cream of tartar.
39. Ginger Nuts. 3 1/2 pounds of flour, 1 pound of butter, 1/2 pound of sugar, 1
quart of molasses, 5 even tablespoonfuls of ginger, 3 teaspoonfuls of allspice,
1 teaspoonful of cloves, and 2 teaspooufuls of cinnamon.
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