Category: Old Cookie Recipes

Cookies

From 1905:
Two pounds of seeded (not seedless) raisins, one pound of currants, one pint or chopped nuts (any kind liked,) one quart of New Orleans syrup, one pint of lard, one pint of buttermilk, two grated nutmegs, one tablespoonful of soda.
After thoroughly flouring the fruit, put in all the ingredients and mix with sufficient flour to make a stiff dough, as you would mix bread. Do this at… Continue reading

Honey Cookies

2/3 cup honey
2/3 cup sugar
2 ½ cups flour
¼ teaspoon soda
1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
2 oz. finely chopped candied orange peel
½ lb. walnut meat chopped finely
Sift together the flour, spices and soda and add other ingredients. Knead thoroughly, roll out thin and cut with biscuit cutter. These cookies are very hard.… Continue reading

Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

From 1921:
This recipe comes to us with the recommendation that the children can “eat any amount without any bad after effects.” We opine that there may be decidedly good after effects if any degree of moderation is observed.
Also there is a warning not to bake the little cakes too long, or
they will become very hard upon cooling. This was found through
sad experience. They should… Continue reading

One-Egg Cookies

Cream half a cupful of butter with a cupful of powdered sugar; beat an egg very light and stir into the creamed sugar and butter. Beat hard for a minute; add a cupful of milk, a teaspoonful of vanilla and 2 ½ cupfuls of flour, sifted twice with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix into a soft dough, roll thin, cut into rounds of any shape you like… Continue reading

“Sand” Cookies

From 1910:

Cream together a cupful of butter and 2 of granulated sugar. Beat 2 eggs very light — yolks and whites separately — and add the yolks to the creamed butter and sugar. Stir in ½ teaspoonful of nutmeg. Sift in 2 cupfuls of flour twice with a teaspoonful of baking powder and add, alternately, with the whipped whites. If not stiff enough for rolling… Continue reading

Jersey Cookies

Cream together a cup of butter and 2 of powdered sugar; beat into this 3 eggs, whipped light; stir in a teaspoonful each of powdered cloves and mace and ½ teaspoonful of soda dissolved in boiling water. Have 2 cups of fried and sifted flour, and work in cautiously. The dough should be just stiff enough to be rolled out. Cut into round cakes, stick a raisin in… Continue reading

Champagne Wafers for Christmas Ice Cream

Take six ounces of powdered sugar and three well beaten eggs, and three ounces of flour, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and beat together thoroughly. Drop a teaspoon of this mixture on small, flat baking tins and spread out very thinly. Bake for three minutes in a hot oven. When brown at the edge, they are done, and should be taken out and rolled round a stick the… Continue reading