Our favorite recipes (Stake Relief Society, 1954)

Blend raw and cooked egg yolks. Add sugar then butter. Mix well. Add flour and meal. Roll out - cut into rings or any desired small shape. (Handle carefully!) Dip into slighly beaten egg white - then nuts and sugar. Bake in moderate slow oven (325°) about 15 minutes or until lightly brown. DATE CREAM-CHEESE ROLL UPS 1 cup butter 4 tsp. salt 4 1b. cream cheese Confectioner's sugar 2 cup sifted flour Pitted dates 1. Cream butter and cheese together, Blend in flour and salt. Chill until firm enough to roll. 2. Roll to 1/8" thickness on board sprinkled with confectioner's sugar. 3. Cut in 1 X 3" strips with pastry wheel. Put a date in the center of strip and roll up, Put folded side down on cookie sheet, If desired sprinkle with powdered sugar., Substitute nuts or candied cherries for dates, Joyce Hales RAISIN FILLED COOKIES 1 egg + cup shortening 4+ cup milk (preferably sour) 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar 3% cups flour 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. vanilla Cream butter and sugar, Add egg, then dry ingredients. Roll out very thin and cut with cutter, Filling 13 cups raisins cup Sugar 15 cups water tsp. vanilla cup sugar ¢ tsp. mutmeg cup flour Boil raisins, water, 3 cup sugar until raisins are tender, Mix flour and 4 cup sugar and add to first mixture, Cook until thick, Add vanilla and nutmeg. Put tsp, filling on cookie, moisten edge with water, put top on, Bake in moderate oven 12-15 minutes, Vera Hales MINCE MEAT COOKIES 1 pkg. mincemeat = cup water - Boil three minutes. Cool 1 cup shortening 3 eggs (or 2 eggs plus 4+ tbsp. milk) 13 cups sugar 2 tsp. soda 3% cups flour 7 tsp. salt Make dough in usual way. Mix in mince meat (and nuts, if desired). Bake at 400° for 12 minutes. Make about six dozen. Barbara Dittmore PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES 1 cup brown sugar 3 cups flour 1 cup granulated sugar 5 tap. salt 1 cup peanut butter 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup shortening 2 tsp. soda Cream butter and peanut butter together. Add sugar gradually and cream thoroughly. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add. Chill dough well; then form into balls the size of a walnut. Place balls on lightly greased baking sheet and flatten with a fork dipped in flour. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 375°. Barbara Dittmore ie NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES 1 cup butter 1 cup chopped nuts 5 cup powdered sugar (English walnuts) 1 tap. vanilla Powdered sugar 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour Cream sugar and butter together. Add vanilla and mix well. Add flour and mix thoroughly. Add chopped nuts — and mix well. Roll in small balls and pat down to size on a cold, greased baking sheet. Bake one sheet at a time in a full pre-heated oven (350°) for about le minutes. When done roll in powdered sugar. After cookies are cool pack in a jar. (These cookies contain no milk or baking powder.) Yield - about 48 small cookies. Florence Bennett SOUR CREAM COOKIES Cream: 2 tbs. butter Add: 3 c. sour cream 2 tbs. crisco Juice of 5 lemon 1 1/8 c. sugar Rind of one orange Add; © eggs Sift & beat in: - beat well 1 3/4 c. plain flour 5 tsp. soda 1/2 tsp. salt Drop batter from tsp. on greased bake sheet. Sprinkle with sugar and nuts. Bake 10 minutes. - 375° Johanna Joseph MERRY WIDOWS Line lower half of cup cake tin with pie crust. Put full tsp. of firm jelly in each section. Cover with any simple, white cake batter. Bake 30 minutes. Leone Rose CHOCOLATE CRISPIES 2 eggs cup regular flour-sifted 1 cup sugar cup butter $ tap. vanilla S$ cup chopped nuts 2 sq. Baker's chocolate Beat eggs until light. Add sugar and vanilla, beat until thick, add chocolate melted with butter, add flour. Mix thoroughly and spread in 8 inch square pan (greased), sprinkle nuts on top. Bake in slow oven for 30 minutes. Cut in squares while warm. Anna Laura Cannon HYGIENIC COOKIES 13 c. brown sugar 1 tsp. soda