VINTAGE RECIPE POETRY

Hello, Just wanted to share a recipe with you that I found today in one of my vintage cookbooks. The name of the book is The Martha's Book of Choice Recipes, the book was published by
HOLY FAMILY HOUSEHOLD No. 243 Order of Martha, Atlantic, Iowa June 1919.
This is the recipe:



BILL COOKIES.
Bill Cookies, and rightly they are named.
If they are goine in a jiffy, no one can be blamed;
Take one cup sugar, a half cup of lard;
Cream these together, add tow eggs and beat hard;
One scant teaspoon of soda, now put in a cup,
Add a mite of hot water, and then 'twill foam up;
Sift three cups of flour, and place in a bowl,
Mix smoothly and swiftly, and then neatly roll;
If the dough is too soft, a little flour add,
I'll assure better cookies your husband ne'er had.
-Mrs. C. E. Kilgore.

This one is for Doughnuts:

DOUGHNUTS.
One cup sugar, one cup milk,
Two eggs beaten fine as silk;
A little nutmeg(lemon will do)
Baking powder, teaspoons two.
Lightly stir the flour in,
Roll on pie board not too thin,
Cut in diamonds twists or rings.
Drop with care the doughy things
Into fat that briskly swells
Evenly the spongly cells.
Roll in sugar, lay to cool,
Always use this simple rule.
-Mrs. Ray Stevenson

HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE!!!