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Brown Sugar Cookies

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Brown Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookie
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Serves: 5 doz
 
Ingredients
  • 3 sq. margarine
  • 1 C. brown sugar
  • 1 C. sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1½ tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 6 C. flour
Instructions
  1. Combine all ingredients and roll out between two pieces of waxed paper.
  2. Cut out shapes with a glass or cookie cutter.
  3. Place on a greased cookie sheet.
  4. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
  5. Frost with Cream cheese frosting.
  6. Makes about 5 dozen.

 

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Banana Nugget Cookies

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Banana Nugget Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookie
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Ingredients
  • ¾ C. shortening
  • 1 C. sugar
  • 3 bananas, mashed
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1¾ C. rolled oats
  • ¾ tsp. cinnamon
  • 1½ C. flour
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 C. chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Cream the shortening and sugar together.
  2. Add egg and bananas and stir well.
  3. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
  4. Drop by teaspoon on a cookie sheet.
  5. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
  6. Makes 3½ dozen

 

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No-bake Chocolate oatmeal cookies

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No-bake Chocolate oatmeal cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 stick butter
  • ¼ c. cocoa
  • ½ c. milk
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 1 tbsp. vanilla
  • ½ c. peanut butter
  • 3 c. oats
Instructions
  1. Boil butter, cocoa, milk, sugar, vanilla and peanut butter for 1 minute.
  2. Add oats and mix well.
  3. Spoon out onto wax paper.

 

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Scottish Shortbread

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Scottish Shortbread
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Recipe Type: International
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Ingredients
  • 2 c. butter, softened
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 5 c. unsifted all-purpose flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
  2. Grease four 8-inch round cake pans or 1 large pizza pan.
  3. Mix all three ingredients in a large mixing bowl with electric mixer. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces. Pat evenly into bottom of pans.
  4. Bake for 1 hour or until golden but not brown.

 

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
  • ½ c. shortening
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 c. pumpkin pie filling
  • 2 c. sifted all-purpose flour
  • 4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2½ tsp. ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp. ground ginger
  • 2 c. Semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Cream shortening adding sugar gradually until light and fluffy. Add pumpkin and mix well.
  2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices together.
  3. Stir in dry ingredients and mix until blended. Add chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheets. Bake in 350 degree oven for approximately 15 minutes.

 

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Biscotti

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Biscotti
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • ½ c. butter, room temperature
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ tsp. vanilla
  • 2 c. flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1½ c. chopped nuts (optional)
Instructions
  1. Combine butter, sugar and eggs, mixing well. Beat in vanilla. combine dry ingredients and chopped nuts. Add to egg mixture. Batter will be very stiff and sticky. Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or more.
  2. Divide the dough in 2 loaves about 12 inches long and flatten slightly. Place loaves on 10 x 14 inch sheet, leaving at least 3 inches between. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven. Cool slightly; lower oven to 375 degrees. continue to bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, or until firm. While still warm, slice loaves in diagonal slices, about ⅓ inch thick.
  3. Variations: Add 1 cup cocoa and 1½ c. chocolate chips to flour-nut mixture. Dip one end of the biscotti in melted chocolate
  4. Goes Great with Coffee!!!

 

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Gingerbread Cookies

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Gingerbread Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • ¼ c. hot water
  • 4½ c. flour
  • 2 tsp. ginger
  • 2 tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 c. vegetable oil
  • 1 c. brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 c. molasses
  • ¾ c. cold black coffee
Instructions
  1. Mix all dry ingredients.
  2. Mix vegetable oil, egg, molasses, coffee and water and stir into dry ingredients.
  3. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Roll out dough and cool in refrigerator for at least one hour.
  5. Cut to desired shape and place on cookie sheet.
  6. Bake at 425 degrees until the cookies pass the toothpick test (toothpick comes out clean) time will vary depending on the thickness you decide.

 

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Scottish Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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Scottish Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 2 c. quick oats
  • 2 c. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. ground allspice
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 c. butter, melted
  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 c. firmly packed brown sugar
  • ½ c. corn syrup
  • 1½ c. raisins
Instructions
  1. Stir together first 6 ingredients. In a large bowl, stir together next 4 ingredients until smooth.
  2. Gradually add oat mixture, stirring until a smooth, thick batter forms. Stir in raisins. Cover; chill at least 1 hour.
  3. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2" apart onto greased cookie sheet. With fork, press lightly to flatten.
  4. Bake at 350°F 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
  5. Remove from cookie sheet; cool on rack.

 

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Jam Thumbprint Cookies

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Jam Thumbprint Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookie
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Ingredients
  • ½ c. butter
  • 1½ c. flour
  • ½ c. sugar
  • 2 eggs, separate yolks and whites
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 c. pecans, chopped
Instructions
  1. In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium about 30 seconds.
  2. Add about half of flour to butter.
  3. Add sugar, egg yolks and vanilla. Beat until thoroughly combined.
  4. Stir in remaining flour.
  5. Cover and chill about 1 hour.
  6. Generously grease cookie sheet. Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
  7. Roll balls in slightly beaten egg whites, then in pecans.
  8. Place 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.
  9. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
  10. To serve fill centers with strawberry preserves.

 

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookies
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • ½ c. butter
  • ½ c. brown sugar
  • ¼ c. white sugar
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 c. flour
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 sm. pkg. chocolate chips
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ c. nuts
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients and bake at 325 degrees for 6 minutes.

 

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Sugar Cookies

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Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp. milk
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
  1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla all together.
  2. Add egg. Beat until light and fluffy.
  3. Stir in milk.
  4. Stir in sifted dry ingredients. Blend well.
  5. Divide dough in half. Chill 1 hour or more.
  6. Roll dough on floured board to about ⅛ inch thickness.
  7. Cut to desired shape.
  8. Bake on cookie sheet, in a 375 degree oven, for 8 minutes.
  9. ICING:
  10. c. sifted confectioner's sugar
  11. /4 c. milk
  12. /2 tsp. vanilla
  13. Dash of salt
  14. Combine all ingredients and mix well.
  15. Add food coloring if desired.

 

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Peanut Butter Cookies

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Peanut Butter Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 large egg
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Place rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.
  3. Bake at 350°F for about 10 minutes.

 

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Cinnamon Cookies

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Cinnamon Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 3½ c. flour
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1 tbsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 c. Crisco
  • 1 c. brown sugar
  • 1 c. white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 c. pecans
Instructions
  1. Mix first 4 ingredients, set aside.
  2. Mix next 4 ingredients, and beat until creamy.
  3. Add first 4 ingredients to mixture and add nuts.
  4. Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.

 

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Rasin Drop Cookies

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Rasin Drop Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 ½ C. raisin
  • C. water
  • C. shortening
  • 1 ½ C. sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • tsp. soda
  • 3 C. whole wheat flour
  • tsp. salt
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
  1. Boil raisins in water for two minutes.
  2. Add soda and set aside to cool.
  3. Cream shortening and sugar and add beaten eggs shift dry ingredients together and add with raisin mixture.
  4. Bake 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees.

 

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Applesauce Cookies

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Applesauce Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 C. Shortening
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp. Baking soda
  • 2 C. apple-sauce
  • 2 C. sugar
  • 4 C. flour
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1 tsp. cloves
  • 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
  1. Mix applesauce and baking soda in bowl.
  2. Cream shortening and sugar together in a bowl and add eggs.
  3. Sift flour and spices into mixture and add applesauce.
  4. Bake for 12 minutes at 350.

 

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