1¼ lb. sugar.
1 lb. butter.
½ pint cold water.
3 eggs.
3 lbs. flour.
1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
4 tablespoonfuls caraway seed sprinkled through the flour.
Rub the butter, or, what is better, chop it up in the flour; dissolve
the sugar in the water; mix all well with the beaten eggs, cut in
square cakes, or with oval mould, and bake quickly.
“MOTHER’S” COOKIES.
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 eggs, well beaten.
¼ teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water.
1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
1 teaspoonful cloves.
Flour to make soft dough, just stiff enough to roll out. Try two cups
to begin with, working it in gradually. Cut in round cakes, stick a
raisin or currant in the top of each, and bake quickly.