Brown Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup nuts
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cloves

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add well-beaten eggs.

2. 2

   Sift dry ingredients together and dredge nuts and raisins in dry ingredients before mixing with the butter, sugar, and eggs.

3. 3

   Drop by teaspoon on a greased cookie sheet.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon cloves 2 cups raisins 1 cup nuts Cook the above ingredients 3 minutes after it begins to boil. Al- low to cool. Sift 4 cups flour and 2 teaspoons of soda together and add to cooled mixture. Mix well. Bake in muffin tins in moderate oven. Mrs. Lester Slate ORANGE FRUIT CAKE 1 cup sugar 1 cup butter 2 eggs V2 cup chopped nuts 1 cup chopped dates 2/3 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon soda 2 cups flour Pinch of salt 1 tbsp. grated orange rind Cream sugar and butter, add milk and flour, small amount each time, add eggs unbeaten. Add nuts and dates last. Bake on large baking sheet. Top with the following: 1 cup sugar, % cup orange juice, 2 tablespoons grated orange rind. Mix sugar, juice and orange, cook until thick. Spread on warm cakes. Mrs. Sara Edminsfon 41 ORANGE CUP CAKES Yz cup butter 1 cup sugar Grated rind of 1 large orange Yl cup seedless A raisins 2 eggs 2 cups flour Yz teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 2/3 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream butter and sugar, add orange peel, add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add alternately the flour, sifted several times with salt added, sour milk, soda, vanilla, raisins, and baking powder last. Bake in small cup cakes. When done, take from oven and put the following mixture over cup cakes while hot : Yz cup sugar, 1/3 cup orange juice. Cook until thick. Mrs. G. L. Burke OATMEAL COOKIES Yz CUP shortening V/2 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon soda 2 eggs x/2 teaspoon salt Yz cup water Yi teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups oatmeal Yz teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup raisins Cream butter, add sugar and eggs. Add water, oatmeal and raisins. Add flour and other dry ingredients. Drop by spoonfuls far apart on pan. Bake as usual. Mrs. Burt C. Miller YUM YUM GEMS Yz cup Crisco 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg' 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cloves 1 cup raisins 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda Blend together sugar, Crisco and egg, add sour milk. Stir in flour and spices. Add soda, then raisins. Bake in muffin tins in moderate oven. Mrs. W. L. Mowery BROWN SUGAR COOKIES 1*2 cups brown sugar 3 cups flour 1 cup butter 3 eggs 1 cup nuls 1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon cinnamon

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