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The progress meatless cook book

Chapter 403: FRUIT COOKIES
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About This Book

This work provides a comprehensive collection of meatless recipes alongside practical household tips aimed at simplifying domestic life. It includes sections on breakfast dishes, soups, salads, desserts, and various cleaning methods for household items. The author emphasizes the importance of efficient meal preparation to alleviate the burdens of daily cooking, encouraging a balanced approach to household management. The text advocates for a sensible lifestyle that minimizes waste and promotes enjoyment in cooking and home care, making it suitable for both novice and experienced housekeepers.

COOKIES

If your cookies are inclined to burn, bake them on the pans turned bottom side up.

Place cookies in pans with a pancake turner.

Cookies take but a few minutes to bake.

Place cookies while warm in a cloth in a covered jar.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Use Cocoanut Cooky recipe, with the exception of changing cup of cocoanut to one cupful of melted chocolate.

COCOANUT COOKIES

½ cupful sugar
½ cupful butter
¼ cupful milk
1 cupful grated cocoanut
½ teaspoonful salt
½ teaspoonful lemon flavoring
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1 cupful flour

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, cocoanut, salt, flavoring, and baking powder stirred in with the sifted flour. Roll thin, cut out and bake.

FRUIT COOKIES

Use recipe for Cocoanut Cookies, substituting chopped fruit for cocoanut.

Place them when cold in a jar with paraffin paper between each layer.

GINGER COOKIES

2 cupfuls molasses
1 cupful butter
1 cupful sugar
2 cupful sour milk
2 eggs
1 tablespoonful ginger
1 teaspoonful soda
flour

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in little water, ginger, and flour enough for dough to roll thin. Cut and bake in buttered pans in quick oven.

GINGER SNAPS

1 cupful molasses
½ cupful sugar
½ cupful butter
1 tablespoonful ginger
1 teaspoonful soda
flour

Heat the molasses and stir in the sugar, add softened butter, soda dissolved in little water, ginger, and sufficient flour to make a thin dough. Roll, cut, and bake in buttered pans in quick oven, being careful not to burn.

OATMEAL COOKIES

1 cupful sugar
1 cupful butter
1 cupful sour milk
3 cupfuls flour
3 cupfuls oatmeal
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful nutmeg
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
1 teaspoonful soda
pinch of salt

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in little water, salt, spices, flour and oatmeal alternately. Roll and cut, or drop from a dessert spoon on buttered tins to bake.

PEANUT COOKIES

1 tablespoonful butter
2 tablespoonfuls sugar
2 tablespoonful milk
½ cupful flour
1 egg
½ teaspoonful baking powder
pinch of salt
2 cupfuls chopped peanuts

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, milk, salt, peanuts, and baking powder sifted in with the flour. Roll thick and cut, or drop on buttered tins from a teaspoon.

Any preferred nuts may be used.

SUGAR COOKIES

2 cupfuls sugar
1½ cupfuls sour milk
1 cupful butter
2 eggs
flour
caraway seeds or flavoring
1½ tablespoonfuls boiling water
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1 teaspoonful soda

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in the boiling water, any desired flavoring, and baking powder sifted with flour enough to make dough roll out soft and thin.

Cut in any desired shape.