ROOKIE COOKIES

Y4 cup butter 1 tsp. baking powder |

34 cups shortening 4 tsp. salt :

¥% cup brown sugar | 1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg Y2 cup nuts |

¥Y2 cup white sugar Y4 cup chopped cherries glazed »
1 cup flour 2% cups rolled oats

1 tsp. soda

Cream butter and shortening, add sugar and blend thoroughly.

Beat in egg. Sift dry ingredeints except for oats. Combine with first a
mixture. Add vanilla, nuts, fruit and rolled oats. Mix well. Form into
small balls or drop from a teaspoon. Bake on oiled cookie sheet at
375° for 8- 10 minutes. (raisins can be substituted for cherries or

nuts.) Yield — 742 dozen.

Nan Smallwood

BOILED RAISIN COOKIES 7
1¥2 cups white sugar ] tsp. nutmeg
Yy cup butter 1 tsp. cloves
2 eggs 1 cup chopped nuts
1 tsp. baking soda 2¥2 cups flour E
1 tsp. salt 2 cups raisins

1 tsp. baking powder

Boil raisins until all the water is gone. Mix other ingredients a
in order given, add raisins and drop by spoonsfull onto cookie sheet.
Bake 350° for 8 - 10 minutes or until done.

Evelyn Gulstene zy

JUMBO COOKIES

4 cups sifted flour 1 cup water

1 tsp. baking powder 2 cups raisins a
l tsp. baking soda 1 cup shortening

2 tsp. salt 2 cups sugar

144 tsp. cinnamon 3 eggs
Y% tsp. nutmeg 1 tsp. vanilla | -
% tsp. allspice 1 cup chopped nuts

Sift together dry ingredients. Add 1 cup water to raisins and
boil 5 minutes. Cool. Cream shortening and sugars, adding eggs one
at a time beating well after each addition. Add vanilla, nuts and cooled
raisins. Add dry ingredients. Blend well and drop by teaspoon onto
cookie sheet. Bake in hot oven 400° for 12 - 15 minutes. |

Norma Dewhusrt 7

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