Add sugar after eggs are beaten up firm. Make kisses in rings through star tube. Bake cool in dusted pans. Cover with dessicated cocoanut.
Currant Diamonds.
Two and a half lbs. flour, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. butter or lard, 2 eggs, ½ pint milk, ½ oz. ammonia, 4 oz. currants. Rub butter, sugar and eggs light; then add the currants; then the ammonia dissolved in the milk, and lastly the flour. Roll the dough out and cut with a fluted diamond-shaped cutter. Wash them off with milk, place on greased pans, and bake in a quick oven.
Cinnamon Drops.
- 2 lbs. Sugar.
- 9 oz. Butter.
- 1½ pts. Molasses.
- 1½ pts. Water.
- 6 Eggs.
- ¾ oz. Soda.
- ¾ oz. Cinnamon.
- 3¾ lbs. Flour.
Bake in a medium oven. Drop mixture on well greased pans with spoon.
Poor Man’s Bread.
Whip 1 quart and ½ pint of egg whites fairly stiff, then beat into it 5¼ pounds xxxx powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla and darken with burnt sugar color, and finally add 3½ of flour and mix until the mass is a little sunny. Fill into oval shallow pans that have been greased and dusted with flour. Allow them to dry until a crust has formed on top, then bake in a medium oven. When cold knock out of pans, not before.