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Vanilla Wafers

Awaiting Trial Recipe version 1 · Filed by the Court (seed pool) · Adapted from 'Vanilla Wafers' — The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, 1910 edition as read on Wikisource / Project Gutenberg eBook #65061 (public domain) (Ch. XXX, Gingerbreads, Cookies, and Wafers). Measures and oven temperatures modernized. Conversion: the original's 2 cups flour (250 g) are swapped straight for a gum-containing 1:1 blend at the same weight (USDA basis 125 g/cup); no other change. Distinct from the pool's Sugar Cookies — a thin, crisp wafer rolled like a ginger snap, not a soft rolled sugar cookie. Farmer's Imperial Cookies, a lemon-and-nutmeg variant of the same wafer, were screened and not filed (see yields).

A thin, crisp rolled wafer flavored plainly with vanilla — butter and lard creamed with sugar, one egg, a little milk, and flour. Farmer mixes and handles them exactly as ginger snaps, and they keep the same snap.

Category: BakingServes: 36Time: 50 minComplexity: 2/5

Why this complexity: Dough is rolled very thin and cut.

Ingredients

  • 250 g gluten-free 1:1 baking blend (with gum) (about 2 cups), plus more for the board, for the original 2 cups flour (250 g, USDA basis 125 g/cup)
  • 1/3 cup butter and lard in equal proportions (or all butter)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg, well beaten
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

Method

  1. Cream the butter and lard; add the sugar gradually, then the beaten egg, milk, and vanilla.
  2. Mix and sift the blend, baking powder, and salt, and add to the first mixture.
  3. Chill the dough 30 minutes. Heat the oven to 350°F (a moderate oven).
  4. Roll thin on a board dusted with blend, cut with a small round cutter, and place close together on buttered sheets.
  5. Make 8 to 10 minutes, until delicately browned at the edges.

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