HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-11-15, Page 63OATMEAL DROP COOKIES
1 c, pastry flour
'/: tsp. soda,
'A tsp. baking powder
'/. tsp. salt
Sift the above together.
11/4 cups fine oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar
`/i cup shortening or margarine
I tsp. vanilla
1': egg.
Work shortening into the dry; ingredients
similar to pie pastry. Beat egg and add
with vanilla. Add raisins, dates or walnuts
if desired. Bake at 350° for 5-8 min.
Mrs. Minnie Armstrong,
Belgrave
NUT OATMEAL COOKIES
'ft cup shortening
'4 cup, corn syrup
1 egg, well beaten
13 cups oats'
• cup chopped raisins
'/3 cup chopped nut§'
Y. tsp. nutmeg
•:1'/i cups pastry flour
'/a tsp. baking soda
'•1/4 tsp. cinnamon
• '/2 tsp. cloves
3/4 cup white sugar
'/. cup, milk
'/r tsp. salt
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Heat oven. to 375°. Bake for 144b-
minutes.
2-15
minutes. Cream shortening, add sugar and
corn syrup. Add .egg, milk, oats, raisins
and nuts. Add dry ingredients. Blend well.
Drop by teaspoon onto greased cooky
".sheet. Yields 4 doz.
Margaret Spence
Brussels.
OATMEAL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
4 eggs,
1 cup white sugar
1'%i tsp salt
11/4 cups shortening
11/4 tsp vanilla
3: cups flour
135 c brown sugar
3 tbsp hot water with 2 tsp soda dissolved
in it...•
VA cups peanut butter
2tsp, cinnamon
3 cups -oatmeal
Shape into balls and flatten with a glass
that has been buttered so they won't stick.
Cook in 350•F oven.
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Evelyn Caldwell
RR#3 Blyth
Bertha MacGregor
Hensall
CHRISTMAS NUT DROPS
3 cups pastry flour
1 cup butter
2/3 cups brown sugar
1 unbeaten egg yolk
1 slightly beaten egg white
chopped nuts
Cream butter, add sugar and egg yolk.
Blend. Sift flour over mixture gradually.
Blend. Roll into small balls about size of
marbles. Dip into egg white, then roll in
nuts. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at
300* for about 35 minutes.
Margaret Spence
Brussels
CHRISTMAS COOKIES
Cream '/2 cup butter with 1/2 cup shorten-
ing. Add lA cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white
sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 egg and mix.
well.
Stir in 1 cup flour, '/i tsp. Baking Soda,
1/ tsp. salt and mix well again.
Add:
1 cup ,coconut (fine)
'/A cup chopped dates
' cup red cherries.
1/4 cup green cherries
2 cups oatmeal
Mix altogether and dropby teaspoonful
on greased' cookie sheet. I3ake at 325°F, 12
to 15 minutes. Makes a large batch. These
freeze well.
Elizabeth Sholdiee
Brussels.
SUGAR COOKIES
2 cups white sugar
3 eggs ..
1 .c butter
1 c heavy, sour cream
1 tsp van I la ;extract.
1 tsp lemon .extract (opt)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
4-5 c flour
Cream butter, add sugar, and mix velli '
Add eggs, extracts and sour cream-miX
well. Add the baking soda, baking powder,
,salt and 4 c of flour Add the last cup of flour,
a little at a time until dough is stiff. Mix
well. These cookies can be rolled about 1/4"
thick and cut with a cookie cutter into
desired shapes and then iced for Christmas
A great lunch bort idea is to roll: them into
balls and flatten with a glass thata been.
dipped in sugar, leaving a coating of sugar
on each cookie. 350.F 1245 min.
Mrs. Susan O'Connor
RBI Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Ctik.RRY CENTRES
2 squares semi=sweet chocolate
1 tin eagle brand milk
'/2 pound graham wafer crumbs or (36
single crackers)
Melt chocolate in top of double -boiler.
Add eagle brandmilk and cook until thick
(5 minutes)., Remove from heat and add
graham cracker crumbs. -
Wet hands with water to avoid mixture
sticking when rollinginto balls . Put a
cherry in portion of above mixture, form a
ball and roll in shredded coconut. Repeat.
Makes approximately 11/2 to 2 dozen cherry
centre. Refrigerate or put in freezer.
Mrs. firuce (Kathy) Wilbee
R.R. i, Ethel ...
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MiNCEMEAT MAMBOS
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup soft butter or margarine
2 :cups brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1 cup All Bran or bran buds,
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups prepared mincemeat
1. Sift together flourabaking powder and
salt.
2. Blend butter and sugar. Add eggs and
beat well. Stir , in bran, vanilla, and>
mincemeat. Add sifted dry ingredients,
mix well, Drop by tablespoons on to lightly
greased baking sheets.
3. Bake in moderate oven '375° about 15`.
minutes or until lightly browned.
Yield: About 6 dozen cookies, 2'/3, inches in
diameter.
THIMBLE COOKIES
1' cups flour
3/a tsp baking powder
'/r cup white sugar
• tsp salt
1 cup butter or margarine
1 egg
1 tsp vannla'
jams
Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and
salt, blend in butter as you would for
pastry. Add egg and vanilla and work into
dough.
Pinch off pieces, size of a large marble.
Place on cookie sheet. Dent in centre of
each cookie with, a thimble. Fill dent with
jam. Bake at 3750F for 8-10 minutes.
Makes about 30 cookies.
Miss Meda Shantz.
Rita Bit nieli.
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