Process: Put molasses in sauce-pan, bring to boiling point; add Cottolene and, when melted, add flour sifted with sugar, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Drop from tip of spoon in small portions on a buttered tin sheet, about three inches apart. Bake in a slow oven. When slightly cool, remove from sheet with a spatula and roll over the handle of a wooden spoon. Lay on cake cooler until crisp.
BAKING POWDER BISCUITS
2 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
½ teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons Cottolene.
¾ cup milk or water.
Process: Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add shortening and rub into flour with tips of fingers, using a light touch. Add milk or water, mix with a knife to a soft dough. Turn on a lightly floured board; knead slightly. Pat and roll to one-half inch thickness. Shape with small biscuit cutter. Place close together in a buttered pan and bake in a hot oven fifteen minutes.
CREAM FRUIT ROLLS
2 cups pastry flour.
½ teaspoon salt.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1 tablespoon Cottolene.
1 cup cream.
Dates.
Process: Sift together flour, salt and baking powder; add shortening and rub in with tips of fingers. Add cream, mix with knife to a soft dough. Turn on a lightly floured board; pat and roll to one-third inch thickness. Cut with biscuit cutter, place one-half of a stoned date on half of biscuit, brush edges with milk and fold as Parker House Rolls. Press edges together, brush top of rolls with milk and place one-half date on top of each. Bake on a buttered sheet in a hot oven fifteen minutes.
LITTLE CREAM BISCUIT
2 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
¼ teaspoon salt.
1 tablespoon Cottolene.
¾ cup of rich cream.
Process: Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder. Rub in Cottolene with tips of fingers. Cut the cream into mixture with a silver knife. When well mixed, toss on a well-floured board, pat and roll one-half inch thick. Shape with very small biscuit cutter (size of silver dollar), brush the top over with milk and bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven.