Brown Sugar Cookies
From Natchez recipes, 1900
Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One-half cup brown sugar, one cup granulated sugar, one-half cup grated pineapple, one-fourth cup cream (top milk), one tablespoon butter, one tea- si)oon ginger flavoring or tiny pinch of ginger, one-half cup nuts, one teaspoon vanilla. Boil sugar, pineapple, cream to a soft ball stage. Remove from fire, add butter, ginger, flavoring, chopped nuts and vanilla. Beat until creamy. Pour into buttered pan and mark off squares before it is cold. MEXICAN PECAN CANDY Two cups sugar, granulated, one cup sugar, one cup milk, one cup pecans, one tablespoon butter. Boil milk, sugar (two cups), pecans and butter for five minutes. Caramelize one cup sugar over low heat in large heavy pan. Add first mixture to caramelized sugar, continue to stir. Cook to soft ball stage. Remove, cool; beat until creamy. Drop like pralines on wax paper or any buttered surface. PECAN CANDY Pour over three cups sugar one small can Carnation or Pet milk, beat until light and frothy. Add one cup dark Karo, mix thoroughly, boil until it begins to thicken, then stir in three cups pecans. Syrup will become a little thinner after nuts are added. When it thickens a second time, stir in a pinch of soda. Watch and stir constantly as nuts will sink and bum. Boil to soft ball stage, then beat very hard and pour on buttered platter. CREAM MINTS Boil one and one-half cups sugar, two tablespoons Karo, one-fourth cup water. Pour slowly onto beaten white of one egg, flavor with peppermint extract. When the mixture will hold its shape, force through a pastry bag onto a buttered platter. Cook until mixture spins a thread. 16 ANDY-- PECAN CANDY Three cups sugar, one cup Karo (white), one cup cream, one cup pecans, pinch soda. Combine ingredients, cook to soft ball stage, when dropped in cold water. Beat to cream. Pour on buttered surface. -^COOKIES- SURPRISES Cream one-half cup shortening until light and gradually add one cup sugar. Add one egg, one tablespoon milk and one teaspoon vanilla. Add about two cups sifted flour to which has been added one-half teaspoon salt and one and one-half teaspoon baking powder. Chill, then put on floured board, cut into rounds and place on half of these desired filling. Chopped nuts, figs, raisins, dates, jelly or jam is good. Wet edges slightly, top with second cookie, press down onto first cookie, place on silghtly greased cookie sheet and bake in moderate oven— 350° for 10 or 15 minutes. Makes about two dozen. Laurine G. Warren PECAN COOKIES Mix in order, one cup brown sugar, one-half cup shortening, one egg, one cup flour, one-half cup pecan meats, one-half teaspoon vanilla. Drop from teaspoon on cookie sheet. Cook in slow oven. Mrs. V. B. Wheeler ICE BOX COOKIES Mix five and one-half cups flour (sifted before measuring) and one tea- spoon soda. Mix three times. One cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, three sticks butter and one and one-half cups chopped pecans. Work in flour. Make up into two rolls and place in ice box overnight. Slice very thin and bake in moderate oven. This can be kept a week or more in the ice box and used as needed. Mrs. V. B. Wheeler PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES Cream one-half cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup pea- nut butter, one-half cup white sugar. Add one well beaten egg. Work in one and one-half cups of flour to which has been added one teaspoon of soda. Add one teaspoon vanilla. This makes a stiff dough. Grease cookie sheet, roll dough into small balls, then flatten with fork. Bake in oven at 350° for 7 or 8 minutes. Mrs. W. A. Whittington, Twin Oaks 17 --COOKIES^ CHEESE STRAWS Cream two cups grated N. Y. State cheese and one-half cup butter. Sift two cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon cayenne pepper, and add to the cheese. It may be necessary to add one table- spoon water. Put in cookie press. Bake on a sheet 350® degrees for 20 or 30 minutes. Mrs. W. A. Whittington, Twin Oaks PECAN ROLLS One stick butter, two cups flour, four tablespoons powdered sugar, one cup ground nuts, two teaspoons vanilla, two tablespoons water. Make out in ';mall rolls size of walnut. Bake 30 minutes in slow oven. ICE BOX CHEESE WAFERS One-half pound American cheese, grated, one-fourth pound butter, one and one-half cups sifted flour, one-half teaspoon salt, pinch cayenne, if desired. To the grated cheese add butter, salt and pepper. Mix well. Gradually work in flour. Form in rolls, wrap in waxed paper and chill thoroghly in a refrig- erator. Slice thin, press a pecan meat on each wafer and cook in moderate oven 350° degrees about half an hour or until done. Mrs. Shelton Cunningham SAND TARTS One scant cup butter, six tablespoons powdered sugar, one teaspoon va- nilla, one teaspoon water, two cups flour, spice to taste, one cup chopped pe- cans. Cream butter and sugar. Add other ingredients and work into a dough. Roll and cut or shape in crescents. Cook 30 minutes at 320® degrees. When done, roll in powdered sugar. PECAN MACAROON Three cups pecan meats, ground or chopped, one cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, one-third teaspoon salt, one-third teaspoon cinnamon, whites of three eggs. Mix sugar and seasoning, add nuts and stir into unbeaten whites. Drop by teaspoon on greased tin, leaving room to spread. Cook in moderate oven and cool in pans. Makes about 50 small cookies. Mrs. Joseph Kellogg, The Elms BROWN SUGAR COOKIES One cup Crisco, salt to taste, one teaspoon vanilla, one-half cup brown .sugar firmly packed, two eggs beaten, two cups sifted flour, one-half teaspoon soda, one cup nuts
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