Aunt Flora's Chocolate Cookies (ca 1900)

AUNT FLORA’S CHOCOLATE COOKIES
from Maxine’s Recipe Box

(This recipe came from my Aunt Maxine's recipe box. She was born the year the Titanic sank, i.e. 1912 and this recipe belonged to her father's sister.) And that is just how far back we can take it. Flora was a renowned cook and opened a small restaurant in Whitefish, MT when this was wilderness. The railroad men particularly liked her pie).

1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. butter
2 squares chocolate melted
1 egg
2 c. cake flour
1/4 t. cream of tartar
1 t. vanilla
1/2 t. soda dissolved in 1 T. boiling wate added to 1/2 c. milk

Cream butter and sugar, add chocolate and eggs. Stir, then add dry ingredients and milk mixture. Put on greased cookie sheets being careful not to spread too thin. Bake at 350° for 8 minutes.