Cookies
One-half a cupful butter, one-half cup lard, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful soda, a little nutmeg and salt, one egg. Enough flour to mix not very stiff.
Four hundred recipes from Auburn, New York, 1881 — the oldest cookbook here, and the only one written by a woman for herself.
One-half a cupful butter, one-half cup lard, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful soda, a little nutmeg and salt, one egg. Enough flour to mix not very stiff.