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Cookies. 
One pound  sugar  boiled slowly in half pint  water,  scum well and cool, add two tea spoons  pearl ash  dissolved in  milk,  then two and half pounds  flour,  rub
in 4 ounces  butter,  and two large spoons of finely powdered  coriander seed,  wet with above; make roles half an inch thick and cut to the shape you please; bake fifteen or twenty minutes in a slack oven--good three weeks. 
 
 
Another Christmas Cookey. 
To three pound  flour,  sprinkle a tea cup of fine powdered  coriander seed,  rub in one pound  butter,  and one and half pound  sugar,  dissolve three tea spoonfuls of  pearl ash  in a tea cup of  milk,  kneed all together well, roll three quarters of an inch thick, and cut or stamp into shape and size you please, bake slowly fifteen or twenty minutes; tho' hard and dry at first, if put into an earthen pot, and dry cellar, or damp room, they will be finer, softer and better when six months old. 

American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1798
Northampton
Massachusetts

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Tea Cakes.

One pound sugar, half pound butter, two pound flour, three eggs, one gill yeast, a little cinnamon and orange peel; bake fifteen minutes.

Wiggs.

Four pound flour, 1 pound butter, 1 pound sugar, 6 eggs, 1 pint milk, half pint yeast; mix the flour and sugar with caraway seed, melt the butter, and with the milk mix it all together; bake them quick.

Tumbles.

Three pound flour, two pound sugar, one pound butter and eight eggs, with a little caraway seed; bake on tins; add a little milk if the eggs are not sufficient. 

American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1796

Albany
New York