Easy Cookie Recipes

Easy Recipes For Cookies Made The Old Fashioned Way

Plain Cookies

Once cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 eggs, 3 cups flour. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, flour, and baking powder. Roll very thin and bake till light brown.

Aunt Jo's Favorite Cookies

One cup of butter, one and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of sour milk, one level teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Flour enough to roll; make quite soft. Put a tablespoonful of fine sugar on a plate and dip the tops of each as you cut them out. Place on buttered tins and bake in a quick oven a light brown.

Rocks

One and one-half cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons milk or hot water, 1/2 pound dates, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, 1 level teaspoon baking soda, pinch of salt.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and milk, dates, rolled oats, and flour with soda and salt. Drop on hot pan and bake in quick oven.

Shortcake Cookies

One pound butter, 1/2 pound icing sugar, 1 pound flour, 1 egg, 3 teaspoons lemon extract. Cream butter and sugar, add well-beaten egg, flour, and lemon extract. Turn on board, adding enough flour until stiff enough to roll. Cut in shapes and bake in moderate oven until delicate brown.

Pecan Chocolate Wafers

Two eggs, 6 tablespoons flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped pecan nuts (or peanuts may be used, if preferred). Beat eggs well. Then beat in sugar and cocoa mixed. Fold in flour and salt sifted, tablespoonful at a time. Add nuts. Drop by teaspoonful on buttered tin, placing a half pecan on top of each. Bake in a moderate oven 15 minutes. Remove from tin immediately after taking from the oven.

Easy Cookie Recipe For Lemon Snaps

Juice of 2 lemons and grated rind of 1, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 egg, 3 teaspoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. Flour to make rather stiff.

Sour Cream Cookies (Eggless)

Two-thirds cup softened butter, 1-1/2 cups sour cream, 2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 4 cups flour. Sir butter and sugar together. Add the cream, then the flour in which the salt and soda have been well sifted together. Add more flour if necessary. Keep materials all cold while rolling out, and the cookies will require less flour.

Recipe For Cookies Without Eggs Or Cream

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup water, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, flavor with nutmeg. Flour to stiffen. Mix, roll and bake.

Buttermilk Cookie Recipe

Two eggs, 2 cups dark brown sugar, 2 lumps butter size of an egg, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1 level teaspoon soda, flour to stiffen, pinch of salt.

Don't mix too stiff. Roll out and cut into desired shapes. Sprinkle granulated sugar over dough before cutting. Bake in quick oven.

For a change, brush with milk, and sprinkle with granulated sugar, or stick a large raisin in the center of each cookie.

Aunt Mary's Easy Cookie Recipe

Two cups white sugar, 2 cups butter, 4 well-beaten eggs, 5 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 4 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful salt, flavor to taste with nutmeg or ratafia. Roll not too thin and sprinkle with white sugar. Bake 10 minutes in a quick oven.

For a change, press either a raisin or a nutmeat in center of each. A piece of citrus peel could also serve.