This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
2 cups each graham and white flour 1/2 cup butter or oil
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspn. salt cold water for stiff dough
Mix well together, run through food cutter (with finest knife) 5 or 6 times, roll about 1/8 in. thick, prick with fork, cut into any desired shape, set in cold place for 2 hrs. or longer, bake in moderate oven.
Omit sugar for unsweetened crackers. Dough may be kneaded, picking it apart into small pieces, if food cutter is not at hand. Or, crackers are very good made up without any kneading, when rested in cold place.
 
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