"Snickerdoodle" recipes (1901, 1905)

[Barbara Need]

>I just did a re-check, and there are "snickerdoodle" recipes in 1901 and
>1905. What does DARE have?
>...
>Pg. 11:
>"Snickerdoodles" is the somewhat fantastic name of quickly made little  cakes
>especially dear to the children's heart. A receipt for them copied from an
>old scrapbook says: "Stir together two cups of sugar and half a cup of butter.
>When creamy, add two well-beaten eggs, then one cup of milk, with a
>teaspoonful  of soda, dissolved in it; and, lastly, add two and a
>half cups of flour,
>with  two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and half a spoonful of
>salt. Beat the
>batter  thoroughly, and bake in shallow pans, dusting the top of the cake
>before baking  with cinnamon and sugar. Bake fifteen minutes, and
>when cool cut
>in squares.  This receipt will make two panfuls, which will cut into
>twenty-four  squares."

What particularly intrigues me about this recipe is that it is NOT
cookies (rolled into balls and rolled in cinnamon sugar). I remember
my brother making one big Snickerdoodle, and I thought it was an
innovation. Of course, for him, it was, but it is certainly
interesting to know he was not the first.

Barbara

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