Small Cakes
Plain Cookies
1/2 cupful butter, 1-1/2 cupfuls sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1 cupful water, 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg, 1 cupful flour sifted with 1…
Lady Fingers
Whisk 4 fresh eggs thoroughly, the whites and yolks separately. Mix smoothly with the yolks 3 ounces of powdered sugar and 3 ounces of…
Molasses Cookies
1 cupful molasses, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter or lard, 1 tablespoonful ginger, 1 tablespoonful soda, 1/2 cupful of sour milk, 2 eggs.
Drop Cakes
1 cupful butter, 1/2 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, 1 small teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 pint flour, 1 cupful washed and picked currants, 1…
Anise-Seed Cakes
8 eggs, 1 pound sugar, 1 scant pound flour, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, pinch salt, 1 tablespoonful anise-seed. Beat eggs and sugar…
Italian Macaroons
Blanch and pound 8 ounces of sweet almonds (expose them to the air for a day or two before they are required to be pounded) with a little…
Ginger Snaps
1/2 cupful lard, 1/2 cupful butter, 1 large cupful brown sugar, 1 cupful water, 1 tablespoonful extract ginger, 1 teaspoonful each extract…
Almond Jumbles
Work 2 ounces of butter into half a pound of flour; then add 2 tablespoonfuls of sifted sugar, a little lemon juice, and 2 ounces of sweet…
Peanut Jumbles
1-1/2 cupfuls butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 6 eggs, 1-1/2 pints flour, 1/2 cupful corn starch, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 teaspoonful…
Walnut Wafers
1/2 pound brown sugar, 1/2 pound broken walnut meats, 2 level tablespoonfuls flour, 1/4 teaspoonful baking-powder, 1/3 teaspoonful salt, 2…
Springerles
Stir very thoroughly together 1 pound powdered sugar and 4 eggs, then add 2 knife-points of cleaned potash, and the grated rind of 1 lemon…
Lebkuchen
2 quarts molasses, 1 quart cream, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1/2 pound citron, 1/2 pound lemon peel, 1/2 pound almond or hickory nuts, 2…
Pfeffernessle
1 pound sugar, 1/2 pound almonds, 1/2 pound citron, 1/2 pound candied lemon, 4 eggs, 1 nutmeg, 1 tablespoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful…