Fruit Cookies No. 1

Name: Fruit Cookies No. 1
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 2 cups flour (about); ½ cup molasses; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 eggs; ½ cup beef drippings, or ½ cup butter; 2 tablespoons sweet milk; 1 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon nutmeg; ¼ teaspoon cloves; 1 cup seedless raisins

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settlement Cook Book

By Lizzie Black Kander

Published 1903

About

Ingredients

½ cup beef drippings, or ½ cup butter
1 cup

Method

Cream the shortening, add the sugar, the beaten eggs and molasses. Sift dry ingredients with one cup flour and add to above mixture; add flour and milk to roll out. Cut with cutter and bake in moderate oven. Stone raisins and chop or cut in quarters and add to mixture before rolling out.