You’ll be amused by the droll faces.
In an antique shop, pasted on the under side of a drawer in an old table, a radio friend of Fultonville, New York, discovered this recipe written in faded ink in old-fashioned script: “for Elsa.”
Ingredients
- ½ cup soft shortening (113g Lard)
- 1 cup brown sugar (approx. 200g)
- ½ cup molasses (120ml)
- ½ cup sour milk or buttermilk (120ml)
- 1 tsp. vinegar
- 2½ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (approx. 275g plain flour)
- 1 tsp soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ginger
- ½ tsp cinnamon
Method
- Mix together the shortening, sugar and molasses.
- Stir in the milk and vinegar.
- Sift together and stir in, the flour, soda, salt, ginger and cinnamon.
- Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2½″ apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
- Place 3 raisins on each for eyes and mouth.
- Bake until set. The faces take on droll expressions in baking.
Baking
- Bake in a mod. hot oven for 10 to 12 minutes.
- 190°C–200°C, 375°F–400°F , Gas Mark 5–6, Fan 170°C–180°C
Quantity
- About 4 doz. 2½″ cookies.
Title
Betty Crocker Picture Cooky Book
Author
General Mills Company – Betty Crocker was not a real person; she was a fictional persona created in 1921 by the Washburn-Crosby Company (which later became General Mills).
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