Brown Sugar Cookies

Recipe for brown sugar cookies:

2 cups brown sugar
1 cup shortening
1/2 tea. salt
1 tea. flavoring
2 eggs
1 cup sour milk
1/2 tea. soda
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tea B.P.

No other instructions.

Found in "The Woman Thou Gavest Me" by Hall Caine. Published by J.B. Lippincott, 1913.