Holiday Cookies #13

A handwritten cookbook from Chico California 1900 through the 1940’s

Eggless Cookies                                  

2 cups sugar, 1 of butter, 1 sweet milk, 1 tea sp. soda, 1 tea sp. nutmeg, flour to roll.  Bake quickly. 

Mapleine Nut Bars                            

¾ cup flour, ½ cup chopped nuts, 1 cup sliced dates, 1 tea sp. mapleine, ½ tea sp. B.P., 1 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs. 

Mapleine – Created by Crescent Foods founded in 1883, this was its best-known product introduced in 1908, and became very popular during the Great Depression as an inexpensive substitute for Maple syrup. 

It is still available today from McCormick & Company in your regular grocery store. 

Baraboo Wisconsin; from the early 1900’s.

Cinnamon Stars

Gingerbread Men

Kris Kringles

Leb Keachen (Also known as Lebkuchen)

Christmas Pretzels  (these could also be the Norwegian cookie known as Kringlers, see above recipe)

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