Name: Plain Drop Cookies
Ingredients: enough liquid to make a dough that will barely drop from the spoon; grease for the baking sheet

Plain Drop Cookies

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

enough liquid to make a dough that will barely drop from the spoon
grease for the baking sheet

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Add enough liquid to the dry ingredients to form a dough that will barely drop from the spoon but will spread slightly.
Ensure the dough is not too soft to maintain the cookie shape.
Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a greased baking sheet.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 15 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.