Best of Cookies: From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens (Miniature Cookbook Collection)
One in a 12-volume set of miniature cookbooks! Recipes from the top selling cookbook From Amish and Mennonite Kitchensfill these inexpensive treasures.\ \ The recipes reflect wonderful food, the heritage of loving the soil and respecting honest labor, and tables laden with bounty.\ \ These small impulse items make delightful gifts! A gift envelope available with each miniature cookbook.
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From the Backcover What simpler pleasure than a warm, freshly baked cookie? And with the best cookies go memories . . . "Grandma always let me put the raisins on the sugar cookies she baked for market . . ." These recipes are favorites, most of them several generations old!
Soft Raisin Cookies\ \ Makes about 9 dozen\ \ 2 cups raisins\ 1 cup boiling water\ 3/4 cup shortening\ 2 cups sugar\ 3 eggs\ 1 tsp. vanilla\ 4 cups flour\ 1 tsp. baking powder\ 1 tsp. baking soda\ 1 tsp. salt\ 1 tsp. cinnamon\ 1/4 tsp. cloves\ 1/4 tsp. nutmeg\ 1 cup chopped nuts/\ \ 1. Add boiling water to raisins. Cook 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.\ \ 2. Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.\ \ 3. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices. Add alternately with raisin liquid to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins and nuts.\ \ 4. Chill dough for several hours or overnight.\ \ 5. Drop by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes.\ \ Amish Cookies\ \ Makes 7 1/2 dozen\ \ 21/2 cups sugar\ 1 1/8 cups shortening\ 3 eggs\ 2/3 cup dark molasses\ 1 cup sour milk\ 6 1/2 cups flour\ 2 Tbsp. baking powder\ 3 Tbsp. cinnamon\ 2 Tbsp. soda\ 1 1/2 tsp. nutmeg\ 2 cups oatmeal\ 1 cup raisins\ 3/4 cup chopped peanuts or walnuts/\ \ 1. Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs and beat well.\ \ 2. Add milk and molasses alternately with sifted dry ingredients.\ \ 3. Add oatmeal, raisins, and nuts. Mix with hands. \ \ Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Table of Contents Chocolate Chip Cookies Soft Raisin Cookies Amish Cookies Hermits Snickerdoodles Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Oatmeal Whoopie Pies Chocolate Whoopie Pies Gingersnaps Caramel Cookies Brown Sugar Cookies Molasses Cookies Drop Sugar Cookies Walnut Supreme Cookies Pecan Tassies
