American Southern

Cream Crackers

Name: Cream Crackers
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 cups water; one quart sour cream; 0.5 lb butter; 0.5 tsp soda; 1 each flour; 0.75 lb butter

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 25. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

12Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Instructions

1
Half pint water, one quart sour cream, half lb butter, half teaspoon soda, flour to mix a stiff dough, knead it well until it blisters, as you do biscuit; to this quantity of dough lay on 3-4ths lb butter, roll thin, spreading the butter over it, sprinkling with , folding and rolling again.

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