Russian Rocks

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup butter or substitute
• 3 eggs (beaten in whole)
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup English walnuts
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp. allspice, cloves

Method

1. 1

   Mix well and drop with teaspoon on buttered tin, and bake in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 24 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicacies (1929) by Thursday Club (San Diego, Calif.), page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

es 2 cups brown sugar 1 level tsp. soda 2 eggs 1 level tsp. cream of tartar 1 cup shortening Salt 4 cups flour mixed with Mix all together well and add : 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped nuts (very fine) Mix well and make into rolls 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Let stand in the ice-box over night — then slice and bake in a quick oven. — Mrs. Herman Jacobson. Date Sticks Sift together: 1 cup of nuts (not cut 1 cup sugar too fine) 1 cup flour 1 cup dates (cut into l/z tsp. baking powder small pieces) Pinch of salt Beat 2 eggs slightly and mix with the rest 1 tsp. vanilla Bake 20 minutes and while hot cut and roll in powdered sugar. Hot oven at first and gradually cool down. — Mrs. Richard Barthelmess. —117— Cookies and Small Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Brown Sugar Ice Box Cookies 4 cups brown sugar 1 tbsp. soda 4 eggs beaten 1 tbsp. vanilla 1 cup melted butter 1 cup of nuts 2 tbsp. cream tartar 7 cups of flour Melt butter, pour over sugar and cream together. Add e jgs, vanilla and then dry ingredients. Mix and roll into loaf, Let stand overnight in ice box. In morning slice and bake. Makes 50 cookies. — Mrs. Lester Wilson. Fruit Snaps iy2 cups sugar 1 cup raisins 1 cup shortening 1 tsp. each cloves, cinnamon. 3 eggs, unbeaten allspice Y cup molasses 1 tsp. soda Z]/2 cups pastry flour 1 tsp. salt Cream shortening, sugar and salt together. Add spices, then the eggs, one at a time, next the raisins and molasses. Last, flour sifted with soda. Drop teaspoonfuls on greased baking pans. Flatten with spatula. Put nut meat in center of each. Bake in moderate oven (350) about 10 to 15 min- utes. This makes about 100 cookies. — Mrs. Harvey H. Hile. Assorted Cookies Yi cup butter 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar J^ tsp. nutmeg 2 eggs Ya tsp. salt 2y2 cups flour Y2 tsp. lemon extract Cream butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, milk and lemon extract. Mix dry ingredients and add to the first mixture. Put in ice box or cool until thoroughly chilled when mixture should become quite stiff. For sand tarts, sprinkle with cin- namon and sugar before rolling out, nuts and currants can be added the same way as well as cocoanut. — Mrs. Lloyd A. Kcnncll. —118— Thursday Club Delicacies Cookies and Small Cakes Potato Donuts 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 3 eggs <"1 tsp. nutmeg % cup sweet milk 3 tsp. shortening 2l/2 cups flour 1 cup warm mashed 3 tsp. baking powder potatoes Sift dry ingredients; add beaten eggs and milk also po- tatoes. Add melted shortening and enough flour to roll. Have fat for frying heated until a cube of bread becomes golden brown in 60 seconds. — Mrs. Eddie Simpson. Russian Rocks \y2 cups brown sugar meg 1 cup butter or substitute 1 tsp. cinnamon, pinch 3 eggs (beaten in whole) of salt 1 tsp. soda dissolved in a 1 cup raisins little hot water 1 cup English walnuts y tsp. allspice, cloves nut- 2^4 cups flour Mix well and drop with teaspoon on buttered tin, and bake in moderate oven. — Mrs. E. F. Hoover. Brown Sugar Cookies 2 cups brown sugar Pinch salt 1 cup Crisco and butter 1 level tbsp. soda 3 cups flour 1 level tbsp. cream of tartar 2 eggs Cream shortening and sugar, add well beaten eggs. Sift salt, soda, cream of tartar and flour several times and add to mixture. Mix till very stiff, then roll and cut real thin. — Mrs. Russell Bosom. Polly's Cakes. 2 eggs beaten 1 cup brown sugar / y2 cup flour y2 tsp. baking powder y^^*- 1 cup nut meats Raisins if desired Bake in muffin tins and frost — Mrs. Lester Wilson. —110— Cookies and Small Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Chocolate Cup Cakes 1 cup sugar Yz tsp. soda Yt, cup butter V/z cups flour 1 cup sour cream 2 squares chocolate 2 eggs 2 tsp. baking powder Cream sugar and butter, add well beaten yolks, cream (soda beaten in), and melted chocolate. Sift flour and bak- ing powder several times and add to mixture. Lastly fold in beaten whites with pinch of salt

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