Boston Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Boston Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup chopped nut meat, hickory or English walnut
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1½ tablespoons hot water
• ½ cup currants
• 3¼ cups flour
• ½ cup raisins, seeded and chopped

Instructions

1. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and eggs well beaten.
2. Add soda dissolved in hot water, and one-half the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon; then add nut meat, fruit, and remaining flour.
3. Drop by spoonfuls one inch apart on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.