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Fancy Cookies for Company Some vintage recipes from 1932 to surprise your family and friends. |
| Copyright © 2005 Allison Ray. All rights reserved. Updated August 13, 2005 Disclaimer |
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| "COOKIES are a general favorite from the time a child is old enough to find his way to the pantry cookie jar until eating ceases to be a pleasure. Scarcely any other bakery product has such a wide scope of usefulness. At a children's party, you may serve cookies in fancy arrangements but made of a very simple rolled dough. These are drier and require more chewing by the children and are very easily digested. You can purchase cutters of all shapes so that animal cookies, the joy of all children, may bring them delight at all holiday functions. Drop cookies are of much richer nature than are most rolled cookies. More shortening is used so that a crips product will result. These cookies may be used as a substitute for cake. Cholocate drop cookies, brownies, chocolate crispies, oatmeal cookies and peanut cookies are rich and delicious enough to serve alone or to accompany a pudding, ice or jello dessert. For parties and company, you may serve crisp, rich cookies generally containing egg whites to make them fluffy. Tarts, marguerites and meringues fall in this class. Meringues may be made into fancy shapes. Almost everyone is familiar with the rolled cookie, so we offer you some recipes for more festive occasions." Butterscotch Cookies Recipe 1/2 cup fat, part butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 cup nut meats 2 cup sifted flour 2 tsp. baking powder Melt fat, add sugar, then egg and vanilla. Beat well. Stir in nut meats, then sift in fourt and baking powder. Mix to a stiff dough. Form into solid roll, about 2 inches in diameter. Wrap in oiled paper. Let stand all night in a cool place. Slice thin with a sharp knife and bake to a light brown in a moderate oven. Chocolate Crispies Recipe 2 sq chololate 1/2 cup butter or other shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs unbeaten 1/2 cup sifted flour 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup net meats finely chopped To melted chocolate, add butter, sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla beating well. Spread mixture on baking sheet. Sprinkle eith nuts. Bake in hot oven 400 degrees for 15 minutes. While warm, cut with cookie cutter, or mark in squares. Makes 48 chocolate crispies. Ground or finely chopped peanuts are delicious in these. Peanut Cookies Recipe 2 tbsp butter 1/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup flour 2 tsp milk 1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts 1/2 tsp lemon flavor Cream the butter, add sugar and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt and flour. Add to first mixture and then add milk, peanuts and lemon juice. Drop from a tsp. on a buttered baking sheet 1 inch apart and place 1/2 peanut on top of each. Bake 12-15 minutes in a slow oven. Makes 24 cookies. 1 pt. peanuts when shelled yields 1/2 c. Milk of Magnesia Cookies for Children These cookies have been tried out in the Rawleigh Good Health Diet Kitchen and proven very successful. They contain many minerals which are needed by the body and produce alkalinity. A very slight laxative quality would result when the magnesium oxide comes in contact and unites with the moisture in the intestines. These cookies are very acceptable for children's lunches and especially the lunch basket. The recipe is a follows: 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup milk of magnesia 1 tsp vanilla 3-4 cups flour 1 cup raisins or dates Cream shortening and sugar, add well-beaten egg and mix well. Sift baking powder and four together, then add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Add vanilla and fruit and roll out thin. Bake in a quick oven. This makes 4 dozen cookies. |