Flat Cookies

Ingredients:

• One quart of flour.
• One pint of sweet milk.
• One tablespoonful of butter.
• One-half teaspoonful of salt.
• One-half teaspoonful of baking powder.
• One-half cupful of sugar.

Directions:

1. Rub butter thoroughly with hands.
2. Add sugar.
3. Milk and flour.
4. Mix well with fork.
5. Roll.
6. Cut out with tumbler on flat board.
7. Handle very lightly.
8. Bake twenty minutes.  

 Source - Cooking in Old Creole Days

 Prepared by Raeghan Norred

Louisiana Anthology

January 11, 2015