Herself's Recipes

1/2 cup spry ( crisco or butter should work)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 Tablespoon milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

Blend spry, salt, lemon rind, and nutmeg
Add sugar gradually and cream well
Add eggs and milk and mix well

Mix flour, soda, powder and add to creamed mixture blending well

Drop from teaspoon on to greased cookie sheet
Flatten cookies with a glass
Sprinkle with sugar or coconut or nuts or halved cherries

Bake at 375 for 10 minutes

This was a recipe grandmother saved off the back of ‘Pure All -Vegetable Spry’ which cost 25 cents a can at the time.

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.