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, 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.