OLD-SCHOOL WHITE COOKIES

        8 oz butter               1 tsp baking powder
        1 cup sugar               2 eggs
        2 cups flour              1 tsp vanilla
        1 hard-boiled yolk        ½ cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream the butter and sugar, then add flour in a steady pour. Press the hard-boiled yolk through a fine sieve directly into the flour and mix in with the baking powder. Mix in the eggs. Add the vanilla, and the nuts if using.

Drop from a teaspoon onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes. Rest 30 seconds before removing to cooling rack.

Adapted from the “Charlotte Cook Book” (1893). Discover more vintage recipes at the Padgett Sunday Supper Club (clubpadgett.com)!