Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — Cookies. [ARTICLE]

Cookies.

One-half cup melted shortening, one-fourth cup molasses, one-fourth cup sugar, one-half cup milk (sweet or sour), one-half teaspoon salt, one even teaspoon soda, one heaping teaspoon ginger. Flour to make as stiff as cookies. Flour the hands and make little balls size of English walnut, put on tin about an inch or two apart and bake. They will spread, but should not be soft enough to ran together.