Eggless Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Sugar 1 ts Baking soda 1 c Shortening 1/4 ts Salt 1 c Milk; sour Flour; to roll out Note: No directions. Cream sugar, shortening. Add sour milk, soda and salt. Stir in enough flour to make a stiff dough which can be rolled. Roll out, cut, bake in 425 […]

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Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 2 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1/2 ts Baking soda 1/4 ts Salt 1 c Dark brown sugar – firmly -packed 1/2 c White sugar 1 c Salted butter – cold and cut 2 lg Eggs 2 ts Vanilla extract 2 c Semi-sweet chocolate chips Directions: Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In a […]

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Molasses Cookies #1

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Soft margarine 1 c Brown sugar 1 Egg 1/4 c Molasses 2 1/4 c Flour 2 ts Soda 1/4 ts Salt 1/2 ts Cloves 1 ts Cinnamon 1 ts Ginger Granulated sugar From: Elizabeth Harris chlamy@acpub.duke.edu Date: 28 Mar 1994 09:18:11 -0500 Can’t remember where I got this one – […]

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Hamburger Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 2 tb Vanilla frosting 12 Vanilla wafers 2 tb Green-tinted coconut 6 Chocolate-covered round mint – cookies or patties Honey, warmed Sesame seeds For each hamburger cookie, spread 1/2 teaspoon of frosting on flat side of one vanilla wafer. Place one teaspoon coconut and one mint cookie on frosting. spread flat side […]

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Cinnamon Drop Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 lb Raisins 1 ts Baking soda 1 1/2 c Brown sugar 1 ts Vanilla 1 c Shortening; scant 1 ts Cinnamon 3 ea Eggs 3 tb Raisin juice 1 c Walnuts; english 3 c Flour 1 ts Baking powder 1/2 ts Salt Cook and cool raisins. Mix and drop by spoonful […]

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Black Pepper Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Butter 1 ts Freshly ground pepper or -black pepper 3/4 ts Cinnamon 1/4 ts Ground cloves 1 1/2 ts Vanilla 1 c Castor sugar 1 Egg lightly beaten 1 1/2 c Self raising flour 3/4 c Good cocoa Heat oven to 190 degrees. Lightly grease baking sheet. Cream butter, pepper, […]

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Molasses Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Shortening 1 1/2 c Sugar; brown 2 Eggs 1 c Molasses 1 c Syrup, corn white or golden 1 1/2 c Milk 3 ts Baking soda 1 ts Ginger 2 ts Cinnamon 6 c Flour This is from an Amish cookbook. I have modified the directions to explain better: Cream […]

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Hamantaschen Cookie Dough #2

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Butter 1 c Sugar 2 ts Baking powder 1 Egg Vanilla or lemon extract 2 tb Milk 2 c Flour 1/2 ts Salt (or more) Cream butter, sugar and add egg. Mix and sift flour and baking powder and salt and add some of mixture to creamed butter and sugar […]

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Fruit Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Brown sugar 1 ts Baking soda; in milk 1 c Lard; or butter 2 ts Cinnamon 2 ea Eggs 1/2 lb Raisins 1/2 c Milk; sour 1 c Nuts Knead like bread until stiff enough not to stick to board. Roll thin. Cut and bake. Note: No temperature given. Assume […]

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Big Boy Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 lb Butter – (3 sticks); room -temperature 1 c Sugar; plus 2 tb Sugar 6 lg Egg yolks 1 ts Pure vanilla extract 2 c All-purpose flour; plus 2 tb All-purpose flour 1 c Ground pecans 1/2 c Flaked coconut 1 pn Nutmeg 3/4 ts Salt Cream the butter and sugar […]

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