Sufficient flour to make soft dough. Roll out, cut into shapes and sift sugar over them before they go into the oven.
Lemon Jumbles.
- 1 egg.
- 1 teacupful sugar.
- ½ teacupful butter.
- 3 teaspoonfuls milk.
- 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.
- ½ teaspoonful soda.
- 2 small lemons, juice of two and grated rind of one.
Mix rather stiff. Roll and cut out with a cake-cutter.
Ring Jumbles.
- 1 lb. butter.
- 1 lb. sugar.
- 4 eggs.
- 1 lb. flour, or enough to make out a soft dough.
- Wineglass (small) rose-water.
Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks, then the rose-water, next half the flour, lastly the whites, stirred in very lightly, alternately with the remaining flour. Have ready a pan, broad and shallow, lined on the bottom with buttered paper. With a tablespoon form regular rings of the dough upon this, leaving a hole in the centre of each. Bake quickly, and sift fine sugar over them as soon as they are done.
You may substitute lemon or vanilla for the rose-water.
Mrs. M.’s Jumbles.
- 1 cup sugar.
- 1 cup butter.
- ½ cup sour cream.
- 1 egg.
- 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
- Nutmeg to taste.
- Flour for soft dough.