This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
14 ounces sugar - 2 cups.
14 ounces butter - 2 cups.
11 eggs.
18 ounces flour - 4 rounded cups.
Cream the butter and sugar together, beat in the eggs 2 at a time, add the flour, beat well. Put into a lady finger sack or paper cornet. Make rings on baking pans very slightly greased, and bake in a slack oven. They run out to a flat and thin shape and become crisp and brown. Need careful baking. If the first tried loses the ring form altogether add an ounce or two more flour.
Cost of material - sugar 10. butter 30, eggs 22, flour 4: 66 cents for 3 1/4 pounds,
 
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