Cut Out Cookie Recipe

Cookie Recipes From Grandma's Collection

Orange Cookie Recipe

1/2 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 teaspoon grated orange rind, 3 tablespoons orange juice, 1-3/4 cups (scant) pastry flour or 1-1/2 cups hard wheat flour.

Cream butter and sugar well, add the grated yellow rind from a washed orange, the orange juice, and the well-sifted flour. Chill the dough, then roll to 1/6-inch thickness and shape with floured cutter. Bake in a moderate oven 350°F about 10 minutes. These are quite rich -- are crisp and sweet -- and have an excellent orange flavour.

Honey Spice Cookie Recipe

3 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon allspice, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 3 eggs beaten lightly, 3 tablespoons honey, grated rind of 1/2 lemon, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 egg white, 36 walnut or pecan halves.

Sift flour, cinnamon, allspice, baking soda; stir in eggs, honey, lemon; knead into dough. Roll 1/4 inch thick, cut with round 2-1/2 inch cookie cutter, place on greased pan. Beat egg white with fork, brush cookies on pan with egg white and put nut-half in centre.

Cookie Tarts

A unique cut out cookie recipe that makes delicious preserve-filled cookies.

(1) 1/2 cups shortening, 1 cup sugar.
(2) 2 eggs beaten, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
(3) 1 tablespoon milk, 2-1/2 cups bread flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons baking powder.

Blend 1, add 2, blend in 3. Chill if necessary, then roll out 1/8-inch rounds using 2-1/2-inch cookie cutter. Put on greased cupcake pans and fill with jam or marmalade. Bake 375°F until done.

Dream Cakes

1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon cream into which put a pinch of soda, 2 eggs well beaten, flour to roll. Roll thin, cut with small cookie cutter and put two together with the following icing between and a little over top of cake.

Icing: 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon vanilla, 3 tablespoons cream, icing sugar to thicken. --Mrs. W. McDonald

Oatmeal Date Cookies

1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon molasses. Roll pastry very thin and cut with small cake cutter. Bake. When cool, spread with date filling and press two together in jam-jam style.

Evangeline's Ginger Snap Recipe

This lady, Evangeline, says: "Somebody wanted a ginger snap recipe that would stay hard, and not get soft. Use one cup of butter, 1 cup of lard, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 pint of molasses, 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1 cup of sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of soda, 1 pint of flour -- use more flour, if needed. Melt lard and butter together, stir in the ginger, sugar, and molasses; dissolve the soda in the milk; stir all together, put in the flour, roll out thin, cut and bake in a quick oven."

Remarks. --If made sufficiently stiff, properly baked, allowed to get cold, then kept from the air, they will keep hard a very long time.

Hermit Cookie Recipe

Brown sugar, 1-1/2 cups; 3 eggs; butter, 1 cup; raisins, chopped, 1 cup; sour milk, 2 tablespoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful; cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice, of each 1/2 teaspoonful to flavor; flour enough to roll out; cut out as in cookies and bake in a quick oven till done.