Almond Cookies

3/4 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
1 c. finely chopped blanched almonds
2 c. cake flour
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. soda

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and beat. Sift dry ingredients together and add with almonds. Make a long roll and chill an hour. Slice very thin and bake in mod. oven (350) for a few minutes.

Drop Cookies

A spice cookie with fruit and nuts. I think these may have been Grandma Toomey's.

2 c. flour
1 t. soda
1/2 t. salt
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. nutmeg & cloves
1/2 c. butter
1 1/3 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 c. nuts
1/4 c. milk
1 c. chopped raw apples
1 c. raisins

Bake at 375 - 10-12 min.

Corn Flake Cookies

Another favorite from Great Aunt Minnie:

2/3 c. butter
1 c. sugar
eggs, well-beaten
2 c. flour
1/2 t. baking powder
salt
1/2 t. soda in 2 t. milk
1 c. dates
1/2 c. nuts
1 c. corn flakes
1 t. vanilla*

Cream butter, add sugar and eggs, well beaten.
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt, and add to mixture, with milk and soda.
Add dates and nuts. Roll into balls and pat in slightly crushed corn flakes.

Bake at 375 - 10 minutes

*Vanilla would probably be added with the eggs; she doesn't say

Meringues

My sister Kristine's childhood favorite--a perfect no-fat goodie. For the cookie sheet, you cut open a brown paper bag.


2 egg whites (the eggs are, obviously beaten; on another card the words "stiff & dry" are crossed off--perhaps because she stopped when they were stiff and damp?)

1/2 c. sugar

add sugar 6 T one at a time

& after adding 1/2 t. vanilla,
add rest of the sugar

Bake w/br paper, at 250 = 50 minutes

Sand Tarts

I think these are what we called:

Pecan Dainties

1/2 lb. butter
1/2 c. sifted powdered sugar
2 c. flour
1 c. chopped pecans
1 tsp vanilla

325--20 min.

What the card doesn't say is, form into balls, and after they're baked, roll in more powdered sugar.

I made them a few months ago and forgot the vanilla. They were still good.

Sour Cream & Lard Sugar Cookies

Another South Dakota favorite:

Aunt Helen's Cookies

3/4 lard*
2 c. sugar
2 eggs unbeaten
1 c. sour cream
6 c. flour
2 tsp soda
2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla

Cream sugar with lard (add salt & nutmeg to sugar first). Add whole eggs. Add flour & cr of tartar. Stir soda into a little water & add to sour cream, then add to flour mixture.

Chill dough for several hours. Cut them out & sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a hot oven.

(Use xtra flour to roll them.)

*When I make these one of these days, I'll use butter. But they won't taste the same . . . .

Frosted Spice Cookies

Among the many treats we enjoyed when visiting Gettysburg were the yummy cookies Great Uncle Albert's wife, Aunt Minnie, who hailed from Sweden, made:


Aunt Minnie's Cookies

1/2 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1 c. molasses
4 c. flour
1/2 t. salt
2 t. soda
2 t. ginger
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cloves
1 t. cinnamon
1 c. boiling water (add last)

Drop by teaspoons. 400 for 10 min.

Frosting

2 c. powdered sugar
1 T melted butter
3 T cream
1 t. vanilla