Herself's Recipes

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, Bar cookies

2 cups flour
1 cup shortening
6 Tbsp confectioner’s sugar
4 eggs beaten
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup marashchino cherries quartered

Combine flour, shortening and confectioner’s sugar
Mix well and pat into bottom of ungreased, 13×9 pan
Bake at 350 abou t20 minutes, do not let it brown
Combine eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, pecans, coconut and cherries
Spread mix over top of crust and bake at 350 for ~ 25 minutes

These recipes were clipped from a local paper during the Watergate fiasco. There are fragments of heated opinions on the reverse side of the recipes.

6 tbls shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup milk
1 3/4 cups flour
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/3 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cloves
1 cup seeded raisins

cream shortening and sugar
add egg and molasses, mix well
add milk slowly
add mixed dry ingredients
add raisins , mix well
drop onto greased cookie sheet, bake 10 mins at 350′

This is an old New England favorite and dates back to colonial times.