Did/Do You Have This Book?

@Aunt Bea and @willnbugs, I just ordered a copy of that from my library. I'm always on the lookout for good cookies to add to my Christmas cookie assortments!

My problem with church and fundraising cookbooks was how heavily they leaned on cream, butter, cheese, sour cream and cream cheese, all of which kick my IBS into overdrive. I also don't eat meat. Other than "Jello surprise" :ROFLMAO: types of recipes, they contain few foods that I eat.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
If I see a recipe with a list of 15 ingredients and a wall of text instructions, it overwhelms me. Give me no more than 5 ingredients and one short paragraph or I don't make it.
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Ditto. But I'm ok with 10 ingredients and two paragraphs.

When a recipe includes 1/4 tsp of this, that and the other, I give it a hard pass.
 

StarSong said:
I'm always on the lookout for good cookies to add to my Christmas cookie assortments!
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A few cherry bombs added at the last minute are always welcome addition to a holiday cookie tray but they don’t travel well.

Maraschino cherries marinated in amaretto, bourbon, etc… and dipped in melted white chocolate then into sprinkles or chopped nuts, and refrigerated until serving time.
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Aunt Bea said:
I’m not aware of any ingredients that would not be available.

The main thrust of this particular baking book was to promote the value and convenience of double acting baking powder.

Try one of the cake recipes that allows you to mix and refrigerate the batter and bake it off several hours or a day later. That wouldn’t be possible using baking soda and cream of tartar as called for in many old recipes.

Date Surprises on page 56 using date filling on page 60. We made them as small hand pies and also as date pinwheels. The pinwheels always were part of our Christmas cookie platters.

We also made the Rolled Butterscotch Cookies in page 60 as ice box cookies. Thin slices bake off crispy while thicker slices bake off more crumbly and tender. We liked them thicker but it’s easy enough to experiment until you find something that suits you.

Try any of the icebox cookie recipes on pages 60-61.

Many old time cooks kept a wax paper roll or two of cookie dough in the fridge to bake off for company, very similar to today’s refrigerated cookie dough tubes from the dairy case.
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Oh, you have tried some recipes and given me some greyt information too. Thank you for the very interesting postings.
 
The cookbook in the first post looks familiar so we probably had that, but I remember using this Searchlight cookbook a lot, it had a drop sugar cookie with nutmeg that I really loved when I was 12 yrs old. I don't have the cookbook anymore, but I just googled and not only did the search come back with the recipe, it (I guess whatever AI Google uses) cooperatively gave me a reduced version to make just 4 to 6 cookies and it listed the steps (buttons to push etc) to bake them in my 3-in-1 microwave. AI sure makes things easy for us.

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I had a reprint of Mrs Beeton's book, until I
loaned to a friend, who never returned it.

Mike.

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