Burlington Vermont 1875

July 3rd 1875

Mrs. O’Mara’s Cookies

Heaping teaspoon salt

1 large cup sugar

1 large cup melted butter (the butter has been crossed out and lard put in place, but personally I would use the butter), beat together, little nutmeg, heaping teaspoon ginger, 1 cup sour milk with 1 teaspoon stirred in.  Roll out this, sprinkle sugar on.  

Obviously you need to add flour to make a dough, I would guess from 2 to 4 cups would be about right. The 1 teaspoon stirred in could be baking powder, that would be consistent with other recipes in this time period.

DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR

As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books

A small leather covered calendar book from Burlington Vermont dated 1875.  It has all kinds of lovely handwritten dessert recipes; the front of the book has an overview of each month and a predictive weather chart, the difference of tie between Boston and New York, the value of gold and silver at the time and other interesting things like rates of postage. 

The list of names for the people who contributed recipes for these books are listed here;

https://kitchenrecipetreasures.com/2021/03/04/daily-recipes-by-calendar-family-names/

Visit my ebay store to find some great kitchen utensils and collectables to go along with these vintage and antique recipes.

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