Sugar Cookies.
Two cups of sugar.
One cup of butter.
Three eggs, whites and yolks beaten together.
About three cups of flour sifted with one teaspoonful of baking powder.
One teaspoonful of nutmeg, and half this quantity of cloves.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in the whipped eggs and spice; add a handful at a time the flour, working it in until the dough is stiff enough to roll out. Flour your hands well and sprinkle flour over a pastry-board. Make a ball of the dough, and lay it on the board. Rub your rolling-pin also with flour and roll out the dough into a sheet about a quarter of an inch thick.
Cut into round cakes; sift granulated sugar over each and bake quickly.