Mix the above, and then work in sifted flour till you can roll it. Cut it into thin cakes, and bake it on buttered tins, in a quick oven.
New Year’s Cookies.
One pound of butter.
A pound and three quarters of sugar.
Two teaspoonfuls of saleratus, in a pint of milk (buttermilk is better).
Mix the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the milk and saleratus. Then beat three eggs, and add, and grate in one nutmeg. Rub in a heaping tablespoon of caraway seed. Add flour enough to roll. Make it one quarter of an inch in thickness, and bake immediately in a quick oven.
Boston Cream Cake.
One pint of butter rubbed into one quart of flour.
One quart of hot water, with the butter and flour stirred in.
When cool, break in from six to twelve eggs, as you can afford.