No. 109 Jumbles
One and one-half cupfuls of butter, 2 cupfuls of sugar, 6 eggs, 1½ pints of flour, ½ cupful of cornstarch, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of extract of lemon, ½ cupful of chopped peanuts mixed with ½ cupful of granulated sugar; beat the butter and sugar smooth; add the beaten eggs, the flour, the cornstarch, and powder sifted together, and the extract; flour the board; roll out the dough rather thin; cut out with biscuit cutter; roll in the chopped peanuts and sugar; lay on greased baking tin; bake in rather hot oven 8 to 10 minutes.