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Whether for lunch boxes,
after school snacks or just when you get the urge
for something sweet, cookies satisfy. (especially
with a cold glass of milk!)The variety of cookies
are endless. Here are a few of our favorites.
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- ~Aunt
Dixie's Peanut Butter Cookies~
- From Dixie
Gill, my husband's aunt.
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- 1 c. brown
sugar
- 1 c. white
sugar
- 1 c. peanut
butter
- 1 c.
shortening
- 1 T. soda
- 3 eggs
- 2 T vanilla
- 3 c. flour
- 1-1/2 c.
nuts (peanuts?)
Cream sugar,
shortening, and peanut butter. Add eggs,
flour and soda. Add nuts and vanilla.
Bake balls and place on cookie sheet.
Press with fork. Bake at some temperature
(try 350 degrees) until done.
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~Lemonade
Drops~
1 cup
butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp. soda
1 (6 oz.) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup pecans
additional sugar for topping
Cream butter and sugar
together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at
a time, beating until mixture is smooth and pale
in color. Add flour and soda alternately with 1/2
cup lemonade. Fold in nuts. Drop by tablespoons
onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees
for 10 minutes or until edges are browned. Remove
to wire racks and lightly brush with remaining
lemonaide and sprinkle lightly with sugar.
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~No Bake Peanut Butter
Cookies~
1/2
cup sugar
1/2 cup white syrup
1 cup peanut butter
3 cup Corn Flakes
Heat sugar and white syrup
in the microwave for 2 minutes or until sugar is
dissolved. Add peanut butter. Stir until well
mixed. Add Corn Flakes. Stir until flakes are
well coated. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper
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~Lemon
Bars~
1 cup
butter, softened
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour
Combine ingredients and mix
well. Press into greased 9x13 pan. Bake 15
minutes at 350^.
Lemon
Filling:
4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
6 Tbls. lemon juice
Beat eggs and sugar until
thick and smooth (about 10 minutes.) Add rest of
ingredients, mix well. Pour over baked layer and
bake for 20 minutes. Cool and sprinkle with
powdered sugar.
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~Shelley's
Chocolate Chip Cookies~
These are
my most requested cookies.
Preheat
oven to 375
- 1 cup
butter flavored Crisco
- 1 cup
white sugar
- 1 cup
brown sugar, packed
- 2
eggs
- 2
tsps real vanilla
- 1 tsp
soda
- 1 tsp
salt
- 2-1/2
cups flour
- 1
large bag semi sweet chocolate chips
- 3/4
cup chopped pecans
Cream Crisco with sugars.
Add eggs and beat until thick and light. About a
FULL five minutes. Add vanilla. Gradually add dry
ingredients and mix well. Fold in chips and nuts.
Drop by tsps. onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Do not overbake.
Cool. Make about 5 dozen.
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~Southern Tea Cakes~
- 1 cup
real butter
- 2
cups sugar
- 4
eggs, beaten
- 1
level tsp. soda dissolved in...
- 1 T.
water
- 1
tsp. vanilla 3-1/2 cups flour
Cream butter and sugar; add
eggs, vanila and soda water. Beat again and then
stir in flour, a little at a time. Roll out onto
a lightly floured board. Cut into fancy shapes.
Place on light greased cookie sheet and bake for
10 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Cool and frost
if desired. Makes about 6 dozen small cookies.
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~Cream Cheese Bars~
2 tubes Pillsbury chocolate
chip cookie dough
2 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Remove wrapper and cut one
tube cookie dough into 24 slices. Arrange in the
bottom of a greased and floured, 9-by-14-inch
pan.
In a bowl, beat together cream cheese, eggs,
sugar and vanilla. Spread over sliced cookie
dough in pan. Cut second tube of cookie dough
into 24 slices. Arrange over cream cheese layer.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool, then
cut into bars.
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~Cranberry Bars~
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup butter or margarine -- melted
1 16-ounce whole cranberry sauce
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
In a large mixing bowl, stir
together the flour, rolled oats, brown sugar,
lemon peel and baking soda. Stir in the melted
butter or margarine and mix thoroughly.
For topping,
reserve 1 cup of the oat mixture. Set aside.
For crust,
press the remaining oat mixture into the bottom
of an ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Bake in a
350F oven for 20 minutes.
Carefully spread the
cranberry sauce evenly over the partially baked
crust. Stir the pecans or walnuts into the
reserved topping. Sprinkle over cranberry sauce.
Lightly pat topping into sauce. Bake in a 350F
oven for 25 to 30 minutes more or till top is
lightly browned. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Cut
into bars.
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Auntie's Molasses Crinkles
3/4 c. shortening
1 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 c. molasses
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
Mix first four ingredients well. Stir in the
remaining ingredients. Chilldough. Heat oven to
375 degrees. Roll dough into balls the size of
walnuts. Dip the tops in sugar. Place three
inches apart on greased cookie sheet.Sprinkle
each cookie with 2 or 3 drops of water for a
cracked surface. Bake 10-12 minutes (just until
set, but not hard.) Store covered.
Always more to come!
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