Our favorite recipes (Stake Relief Society, 1954)

Note - Must be removed quickly from baking sheeting or they will stick. Joyce Hales 93 SWEDISH ICE BOX COOKIES 5 cup margarine or butter 1 tsp. vanilla l egg well beaten 13 cup sifted flour 2 tbs. caraway seeds 1 cup chopped nuts 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar Cream margarine and add sugar slowly, blending well until light. Add beaten egg, vanilla and stir in. Mix caraway seeds with flour and nuts and blend thoroughly into mrgarine mixture. Form into roll. Wrap in wax paper and chill in refrigerator. Slice thinly, cutting each slice in half to forma half moon shape. Place on greased baking sheet and bake 375° 12 to 15 minutes. (25 dozen) Helen Mayernik HANGARTIAN BUTTER COOKIES 2 cups flour + lb. butter %& lb. confectioner's sugar (1 cup sifted) 1 level teaspoon baking soda Pinch salt Yolk 2 eggs teaspoon vanilla 2 Tablespoons orange juice or 1 tsp. lemon juice Mix dry ingredients and add butter, vanilla, juice, when well mixed add yolks 2 eggs. Place dough on a floured board and roll out as thin as possible. Cut with cookie form and place on cookie tin. Take white of egg and beat until fluffy and white put a little on each cookie. Cut walnuts roughly. Mix with sugar and sprinkle over egg white. Place tin in slow oven 3250/3500 and bake about 15 minutes until light brown. Helen Mayernik OATMEAL MACAROONS 1 cup Oatmeal i tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 5 tsp. vanilla S S cup melted butter 1 egg 2 tbap. flour + tep. baking powder Melt butter and mix all together, grease pan and flour pan, drop off spoon about 15 inch apart. Margaret Baumgart 94 tei, oes Me 2 S s ae | 4 DATE STICKS 3/4 cup sugar 1 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs - separated 1 1l2-0oz. pkg. dates 5 tbs. flour 13 cups nuts (walnuts) 1 tbs. milk Flavoring (vanilla) Cream sugar and egg yolks. Add baking powder to flour and add to first mixture. Stir in milk and vanilla. Add nuts and dates. Fold in egg whites. Bake slowly for about 45 minutes in 9" square pan. Louesa R. Macdonald CHINESE CHEWS Cream together: 3 cup butter or oleomargarine l cup sugar Add: 2 well beaten eggs Sift together: /4% cup flour (all purpose) % tsp. salt 3/4 tep. baking powder Add : l tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup chopped nuts Spread thin in pan and bake in moderate oven 350° F. Barbara Dittmore NUT CHEWS 2c. brown sugar $s tsp. soda _ 2 eggs 1 tsp. cocoa lc. chopped walnuts l tsp. vanilla . lc. flour t tsp. salt Add eggs unbeaten to sugar. Dissolve soda in a little water. Add all remaining ingredients and mix well, Spread thin in pans and bake in hot oven about 15 to 20 minutes. When almost cool cut in squares. Rosa Huber 95 ORANGE ICE BOX COOKIES lb. butter (1 cup) 2 3/4 cups flour cup brown sugar teaspoon soda cup white sugar 2 tablespoons orange juice 3 cup pecans cut fine 1 tablespoon orange rind l egg Mix together, forma roll. Let stand in ice box until firm. Slice thin and bake 12-15 minutes (375°) hot oven. Helen Mayernik COCONUT DROP COOKIES 2 cups all-purpose flour; 2 large eggs sifted Grated rind of 1 lemon 1 tsp. baking powder 1 can or pkg. of coconut $s tsp. nutmg + cup mrgarine 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. orange extract & = tsp. salt 3c, milk Sift dry ingredients into large bowl. Add lemon rind and coconut and blend well. Add margarine. Add orange extract to milk add milk. (use 2 extra tbs. milk if you use dry coconut) and 1 egg and beat. Add second egg and beat again. Drop mixture from tsp. onto greased cookie sheet. Bakes in moderate oven (375° F) 12-15 minutes. Yields about 44 doz. KRANSEKAKER 2 hard cooked egg yolks mashed 2 raw egg yolks 5c. sugar lc. butter 33 c. flour Egg white Finely chopped nuts and sugar mixed