Cookbook:Snickerdoodles (Idaho Daily Statesman)

This recipe is from the Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho), October 20, 1901, pg. 11. Per the source:"'Snickerdoodles' is the somewhat fantastic name of quickly made little cakes especially dear to the children's heart. A recipe for them copied from an old scrapbook [follows]."

Ingredients

 * 2 cups white granulated sugar
 * ½ cup butter
 * 2 eggs
 * 1 cup milk
 * 1 tsp baking soda
 * 2½ cups flour
 * 2 tsp cream of tartar
 * ½ tsp salt
 * Cinnamon
 * Sugar

Procedure

 * 1) Stir together sugar and butter until creamy.
 * 2) Add eggs.
 * 3) Dissolve baking soda in milk, then add.
 * 4) Add flour, cream of tartar and salt.
 * 5) Beat the batter thoroughly.
 * 6) Pour in shallow pans.
 * 7) Dust the top of the cake with cinnamon and sugar.
 * 8) Bake for 15 minutes.
 * 9) Cool, then cut in squares.