Written on letterhead for George E. Hart, Lemon Grove, California
Lemon Cookies
Mrs. Evans “Mrs. A. D. C(rocker) kept in house always”
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter
4 1/2 tblsp milk
2 tsp lemon extract or lemon juice
2 eggs
pinch salt
about 2 1/2 cups flour
1 rounded tsp baking powder
Mix soft as possible. Makes 36 common size cookies
Mama’s Graham Bread
1 cup molasses
1 even tsp salt
1 tsp soda dissolved in little bit water
1 cup sweet milk
1 cup sour milk
about 4 cups graham flour or enough to make dough stiffer than ginger bread- Bake 1 hour in slow oven.
Mama’s Gingerbread
she always used the receipt
1 cup molasses
1 even tsp salt
not quite 1 tsp soda dissolved in 1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 tsp of ginger
Butter or its equivalent sizing large eggs about 2 cups flour, not quite as stiff as cake.
Chocolate Cookies
Mama Seaman
3 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup butter
1 cake Baker chocolate
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tblsp vanilla
Flour enough to roll soft.
Xmas Cookies
Mrs. Charles Vollrath
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups syrup (Karo)
1 cup butter & lard mixed
1 cup sweet milk
1/2 tsp cloves
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp soda in a little hot water
Flour to roll out
German Drop Hermits
Mrs. Knudson
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
3/4 cup shortening
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda (in hot water 1/4 cup)
1 lb chopped raisins
1/2 lb chopped walnuts
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
Fine Chocolate Gingerbread – Winter 1919
1/2 cup sugar
2 sq chocolate melted
1/2 cup molasses
1 cup thick sour cream of some milk use 1/3 cup of Crisco
2 cups sifted wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tblsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp soda
1 tsp B Powder
1/2 tsp cloves
Very stiff in pan so must be spread even stiffer than cake
Bake 25 minutes
Zschetzsche’s Chocolate Cake
1 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tblsp butter
1 cup milk
2 sifted cups flour
2 eggs beaten separately
2 tsp B P
Take 1/2 cake beat in choc.
a scant 1 cup milk
Braid thins in double boiler until like paste then add 1 cup sugar
yolk of 1 egg
Let soak little & stir in cakes (cream butter & sugar & add to flour, yolks & milk, with flour, then choc & whites)
Church Lady Recipes 