Boston Cookies
Ingredients
4 tablespoons butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
Few grains of salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup chopped nuts
½ cup raisins
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 350° and butter some cookie sheets.
2. Cream the butter, then gradually add the sugar, mixing well.
3. Beat in the egg.
4. Mix together the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and add to the first mixture, blending thoroughly.
5. Add the nuts and raisins and mix well.
6. Arrange by spoonfuls, 1 inch apart, on cookie sheets and bake about 10 – 12 minutes or until delicately brown.
Boston Cookies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman.
Recipe derived from The Fannie Farmer CookBook, the chapter on “Cookies and Cake Squares”, page 669 of the Twelfth Edition.
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