Valentine Cookie Recipes

St. Valentine's Day Cookie Recipes From Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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Aunt Sarah's Little Lemon Cookies

2 cups granulated sugar
3 eggs (not separated, but added one at a time to the sugar and shortening which had been creamed together)
1 scant cup butter and lard, mixed
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoonful sweet milk
Grated rind of 2 lemons and juice of one

Stiffen the dough with about 3-1/2 cups flour and use about 1 extra cup of flour to dredge the bake-board when rolling out dough and for sifting over the greased baking sheets so the cookies will come off readily. Roll dough very thin and cut in any desired shape. From this recipe may be made 100 small cookies.

The baking sheet (17 x 16 inches) holds 20 of these small round cookies. Do all young housewives know that if dough for small cookies be mixed the day before baking and stood in a cool place, the cookies can be cut out more easily and the dough may be rolled thinner, and as less flour may then be used, the cookies will be richer?

Aunt Sarah always cut these cakes with a small round or heart-shaped cookie cutter and when all were on the baking sheet she either placed a half of an English walnut meat in the center of each cake or cut out the center of each small cake with the top of a pepper box lid before baking them.

Delicious Chocolate Cookies

Beat to a cream half a cupful of butter and one tablespoonful of lard. Gradually beat into this one cupful of sugar; then add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces of Walter Baker & Co.'s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, melted. Now add one well-beaten egg, and half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir in about two cupfuls and a half of flour.

Roll thin, and, cutting in either round or valentine shapes, bake in a rather quick oven. The secret of making good cookies is the use of as little flour as will suffice.