Ammonia Cookies
Recipe
- Title:
- Ammonia Cookies
- Categories:
- Cookies
- Yield:
- 96 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 c Shortening
- 3/4 ts Salt
- 1 1/2 c Sugar
- 1 c Milk
- 1
- Egg
- 1 1/2 ts Oil of lemon*
- 5 1/2 c Pastry flour
- 2 ts Ammonium carbonate*
Directions
- Directions: * may be purchased in a drug store.
- Cream shortening and add sugar.
- Add egg and oil of lemon.
- Mix.
- Sift flour before measuring.
- Measure flour and sift with salt.
- Dissolve ammonium carbonatein a little of the milk.
- Add flour and liquid alternately mixing after each addition.
- Chill dough.
- Roll 1/4" thick.
- Cut in squares.
- Place on greased baking sheet.
- Sprinkle cookies lightly with sugar.
- Bake 12-15 mins.
- in a 375 oven.
- Yields 8 doz.
- 2"squares.
- This recipe was adapted from a Five Roses Cookbook, ca.
- 1925.
- for inclusion in booklet to celebrate Canada's centennial in 1967.
- The booklet was called Centennial Kitchen Cookies, and was prepared by Josephine Peckham, who very kindly shared this recipe with me.
Directions
- Liz Parkinson
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