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Wafer Biscuits
Wafer Bicuit Recipe
(Cialdoni)
Wafer Ingredients
Put following ingredients into a kettle:
- Flour, three ounces.
- Brown sugar, one ounce.
- Lard virgin, half an ounce.
- Cold water, seven tablespoonfuls.
Making the Wafer Cookies
- First dilute the flour and the sugar in the water, then add the lard.
- Put on the fire the iron for waffles or better an appropriated iron for flattened wafers. When it is quite hot open it and place each time half a tablespoonful of the paste.
- Close the… Continue reading
Macaroons
How to Make Macaroons
(Amaretti)
Macaroon Ingredients
- Granulated sugar, nine ounces.
- Sweet almonds, three and a half ounces.
- Bitter almonds, half of the above quantity.
- Whites of egg, two.
Preparing Macaroons
- Skin and dry the almonds, then chop them very fine.
- Mix the sugar and the whites of egg and stir for about half an hour,
- then add the almonds to form a rather hard paste. Of this make little balls, as large as a small walnut. If the paste… Continue reading
Pinwheel Icebox Cookies
Pinwheel Icebox Cookies Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 cup ground raisins
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 cup nuts
Preparing Pinwheel Icebox Cookies Ingredients
- Cream brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar and butter; add eggs and mix well. Add sifted flour, salt and baking soda; stir until smooth.
- Chill.
- Combine remaining ingredients and cook until thick.
- Add nuts.
- Allow to… Continue reading
Applesauce Cookies For Diabetics
Diabetic friendly recipes were sometimes hard to come by, so I was surprised to find this one in a collection of old recipes. This delicious cookie will satisfy your sweet tooth even if you’re not supposed to have sugar. The applesauce makes this a nice, moist cookie that you are sure to enjoy even if you’re not on a restricted diet.
- 2 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. each cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1… Continue reading
Spicy Butterscotch Thins
Butterscotch Thins Ingredients
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. instant coffee
- 1/2 tsp. ginger
- 1 cup butterscotch morsels, melted
- 1/2 cup soft butter or margarine
- 1 unbeaten egg
- 1/2 cup salted peanuts, chopped
Preparing Butterscotch Thins
- Combine dry ingredients together and set aside.
- Melt 2/3 cup butterscotch morsels and butter. Remove from heat.
- Blend in egg and dry ingredients.
- Line a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan with heavy-weight aluminum foil. Grease foil well and… Continue reading