Buttermilk Cookies

Margaret Stemsrud

2 cups sugar

½ cup lard

½ cup margarine

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 cup buttermilk

4 ½cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

Cream together: sugar, lard, margarine. Add eggs and vanilla and mix.
Sift: flour, baking soda, and salt

Alternate adding buttermilk and sifted ingredients until it makes dough. (May have to add more flour depending on the lard quality.)

Roll ¼ inch thick, cut out. Bake 350 ° for 12 minutes.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Quantity -- 1 batch

Ingredients

Quantity -- 4 batches

½ cup

shortening

2 cups

½ cup granulated sugar 2 cups

¼ cup brown sugar 1 cup

1 eggs 4

1 teaspoon vanilla 4 teaspoons

Sift together:

1 cup flour 4 cups

¾ teaspoon salt 2 ¼ teaspoons

½ teaspoon baking soda 1 ½ teaspoons

6 ounces chocolate chips 24 ounces

½ cup nuts 2 cups

Cream together shortening and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla till light and fluffy.

Add the dry ingredients blending well. Add the chips and nuts.

Drop from a spoon onto a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 375 ° to 10 to 12 minutes.

Chocolate Ice Box Cookies

2 cups brown sugar

1 cup shortening

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 squares (2 ounces total) melted chocolate

1 cup

Cream, butter and shortening. Add nuts d eggs. Mix well and add dry ingredients. Roll into a long roll. Refrigerate overnight. Slice and bake at 375 ° for 10 to 12 minutes.

Easy Cookie Dessert

Cookie

1 ½ cups flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

½ cup butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

¾ cup sugar

¼ teaspoon salt

1 egg

Chocolate Filling

1 package (4 ounces) chocolate pudding mix

½ cup whipping cream

½ teaspoon
rum flavoring

Make pudding according to directions. Cool. Beat cream till thick; fold into cooled pudding and add the flavoring.

In large mixer bowl, combine all cookie ingredients--blend on medium speed. Divided into 4 parts by spreading onto bottom of 4 8" round layer pans, well greased and lined with wax paper on the bottom. Bake at 375 ° 8 to 10 minutes till light brown. Cook and remove. Place one baked layer onto serving plate and spread with ¼ of the chocolate

filling and alternate layers. Chill several hours before serving.

Gingersnaps

¾ cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup molasses

1 egg

2 ¼ cups flour

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon cloves

Cream together first four ingredients till fluffy. Sift dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture.

Form in small balls. Roll in granulated sugar and bake on greased cookie sheet at 375 ° F. about 10 minutes. Cool slightly and remove from pan.

Jingle Bells

Grandma Lefebvre

1 pound butter

1 ½ cups brown sugar

2 eggs beaten

2 ½ cups + 2 Tablespoons flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon salt

Add

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup whole filberts

1 cup pecans

1 cup walnuts

1 ½ pounds dates

½ pound candied cherries

Bake in nut cups about 20 minutes at 375° F.

Knox Blox

4 envelopes Knox unflavored gelatin

3 packages (3 ounce packages) Total: 9 ounces Jell-O

4 cups boiling water

2 envelopes Knox unflavored gelatin

2 packages Total: 6 ounces Jell-O

2 ¼ cups boiling water

Mix and pour into a cake pan. Chill till solid, cut into small pieces as a finger snack.

Melting Moments

From Grandma Lefebvre

1 cup butter

¾ cup cornstarch

¹/₃ cup powdered sugar

1 cup flour

Mix by creaming butter and sugar, adding then the dry ingredients.

Chill one hour and roll into balls and then into nuts or frost. Bake 15 minutes at 350 ° F.

Mexican Wedding Cakes

1 cup butter

½ cup sugar

2 teaspoons water

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 cup chopped pecans

Cream butter and sugar. Add remaining ingredients. Chill 3 or 4 hour.

Shape into balls. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 325° Fahrenheit 20 minutes.

Roll in powdered sugar when hot.

Molasses Cookies

This is a very special recipe as it comes from Grandma Bingham. Jerry remembers these cookies

when the Bingham's lived on the farm in Wisconsin. Early risers arose to hot

coffee and these memory making cookies from his childhood. These were also the same

cookies Grandma gave us when we departed on long car trips.

¾ cup shortening

¼ cup molasses

2 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon cloves

1 cup sugar

1 beaten egg

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon ginger

Cream together shortening and sugar. Add molasses and egg; beat well.

Add dry ingredients; beat well. Roll into small balls about 1 inch in diameter and dip into sugar.

Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake at 315 ° for 15 minutes. Do not flatten dough;

they will flatten by themselves during baking.

Oatmeal Cookies

Grandma Ladely

Cream together:

¾ cup butter

1 ½ cups sugar

Add:

2 eggs

Beat well.

Sift together:

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon soda

2 cups flour

Add these dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.

Add alternately:

2 cups oatmeal

1 cup raisins

5 Tablespoons raisin water

Bake at 400 ° for 10 minutes.

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

From Donna Schnick

½ cup butter

2 eggs

1 ½ cups sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon soda

½ teaspoon baking powder

1 cup sour cream

Cinnamon and sugar mix

Cream butter to consistency of mayonnaise. Add sugar gradually while continuing to cream.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well. Add vanilla. Beat till fluffy. Sift flour, salt, soda, and baking powder.

Add to creamed mixture. Add with sour cream. Drop cookies onto cook sheet; sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 400 ° for 12 minutes.

Stained Glass Windows

From Rosemary Brandel

6 squares unsweetened chocolate

2 cups powdered sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 package colored marshmallows

2 beaten eggs

2 cups chopped nuts

coconut

Melt chocolate and butter; add eggs. sugar, vanilla, nuts, and marshmallows.

Cover a piece of waxed paper with coconut. Roll the ingredients into a log.

Wrap in foil and freeze.

Sugar Cookies

From Grandma Ladely

1 cup shortening -- Crisco

2 cups sugar

3 beaten eggs

4 Tablespoons cream (sweet or sour)

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

Mix flour, shortening, salt, soda like pie crust. Then mix eggs, cream, sugar, and vanilla

and pour into first mixture. Mix well. Roll thin on canvas, cut out, and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake at 400 ° 5-6 minutes till light brown. Frost.

Sugar Cookies -- Melt-in-Your-Mouth

From Jeanette Schmitt

1 cup butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup salad oil

2 eggs, beaten

4 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon salt

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

Put every ingredient in the mixing bowl. Turn on the mixer until dough like quality. Roll out dough, cut out the cookies. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for 8 to 10 minutes.