Cookies - American Recipe

Cookies

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●●○○○

🍳 Equipment: Mixing-bowl, Mixing-spoon, Small bowl, Dover beater, Sifter, Bread-board, Rolling-pin, Cookie-cutter, Baking-pans

Classic American cookies — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ cup sour cream
• ½ teaspoon soda
• 2 cups flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking-powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Method

1. Cream — the butter in the mixing-bowl, and stir in the sugar.
2. Beat — the egg, add it to the butter and sugar, and mix.
3. Stir — the soda into the cream, and add this to the butter, sugar, and egg, mixing well.
4. Sift — the flour, baking-powder, salt, and nutmeg together, and add a little at a time to the mixture in the bowl, stirring all together well.
5. Sprinkle — flour over the bread-board and rolling-pin, and place about a third of the dough on the board.
6. Toss — the dough about on the board until it is coated with flour, then roll it out into a sheet about ¼ inch thick.
7. Dip — the cookie-cutter in flour and cut the dough, putting the circles of dough into the baking-pans as they are cut.
8. Take — another third of the dough from the mixing-bowl, roll this out, and cut in the same way.
9. When — all the dough has been rolled out and cut, the scraps should be gathered together, worked into a ball, rolled out, and cut.
10. Bake — the cookies in a hot oven for about ten minutes, or until they are lightly browned. Should they brown more quickly on the bottom than on the top, place the pans in the lower oven under the fire for a minute or two.

Tags: cream, butter, egg, flour, sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

If desired, granulated sugar may be sprinkled over the tops of the cookies, or raisins or a few chopped nuts pressed into the tops, just before the pans are put into the oven.