Herself's Recipes

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, coconut washboard cookies

mix:
1 cup shortening (or butter)
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs

stir in:
1/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
sift together:
4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Mix in:
1 cup shredded coconut

Chill dough for 2 hours
Roll into balls the size of walnuts and place on cookie sheet
Flatten balls with a fork
Bake at 400 8 to 10 minutes

This recipe was clipped from a ‘Gold Medal Flour’ Advertisement and saved by my grandmother.

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, Brown Sugar Walnut Cookies

It is recommended that these cookies be served on the side with ice cream or pudding.

1 cup butter
2 cups light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup walnuts, chopped small, but not too fine

Cream butter and sugar and eggs
Add vanilla

In a separate bowl mix salt, flour, baking soda and baking powder
Now add flour mix to butter mix, mixing as you go
Blend well

Add walnuts
Roll into two separate rolls and wrap in wax paper
Refrigerate overnight

Slice rolls very thin, wafer size
Bake on ungreased cookie sheets at 375 for 7 to 10 minutes until golden brown

This recipe won the weekly recipe prize in the ‘Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Living’ part of the paper, most likely the ‘Record American’. There is no hint as to the date on this clipping.