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Snickerdoodles (Idaho Daily Statesman)

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This recipe is from the Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho), October 20, 1901, pg. 11. Per the source:

"Snickerdoodles" is the somewhat fantastic name of quickly made little cakes especially dear to the children's heart. A recipe for them copied from an old scrapbook [follows].

Yield 24

Ingredients

  • 2 cups white granulated sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2½ cups flour
  • 2 tsp cream of tartar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • Cinnamon
  • Sugar

Instructions

  1. 1
    Stir together sugar and butter until creamy.
  2. 2
    Add eggs.
  3. 3
    Dissolve baking soda in milk, then add.
  4. 4
    Add flour, cream of tartar and salt.
  5. 5
    Beat the batter thoroughly.
  6. 6
    Pour in shallow pans.
  7. 7
    Dust the top of the cake with cinnamon and sugar.
  8. 8
    Bake for 15 minutes.
  9. 9
    Cool, then cut in squares.
Category
Desserts
Method
Baking

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Snickerdoodles_(Idaho_Daily_Statesman)