[Sca-cooks] Cookie Recipe(s) for December 18 - text

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Well, here they are again without the stupid Microsoft fractions!

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 From the family collection, taken from my mother's recipe boxes. She
does not provide lengthy instructions, but they aren't really needed.

*Ice Box Cookies*

1 tsp salt
2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 tsp soda
3 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 cup chopped nuts

   1. cream shortening, sugar, add eggs
   2. sift together dry ingredients, add to above and then add nuts
   3. chill – then make long rolls.

Keep in refrigerator – slice & bake whenever. 350 for 10 - 12 minutes
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*
Chewies*

1 package brown sugar
4 eggs, beaten together
1 1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 lemon & ½ rind
1 cup pecans
1 tsp. Vanilla

Beat together brown sugar and eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and
add to egg & sugar mixture. Bake in greased pan in 300 degree oven about
30 minutes.
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*
Ann’s Cookies *

2 cups Brown Sugar
1 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 stick butter
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts

350 degrees – 30 minutes.
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This last recipe is not a cookie, but it is one of my holiday favorites!

*Ice Box Cheese Wafers *
Eloise (Weesie) Roberts

1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
1 tbs salt
1/4 tsp red pepper
3/4 cup chopped nuts
2 cups grated cheese

Cream butter, add salt, pepper, nuts & cheese. Add flour to creamed
butter. Make 2 rolls. Chill. Slice thin. Bake in hot oven (450) for 10
minutes.

(Option: top with a pecan half. – Lonnie)

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*Butterscotch Crispies *

1 egg
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 tablespoons flour
dash salt
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts
1/4 cup finely chopped mixed candied fruits
1/2 tsp vanilla

Beat egg until light.  Beat in sugars, stir in flour, salt, vanilla, 
nuts & fruit.

Drop batter in tiny mounds from tip of knife about 1 1/2 apart on well 
greased cookie sheet (about size of small grapes)  Bake in slow oven 325 
5 to 8 minutes.