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Holiday Baking #17

Sauris North Dakota 1920’s – 30’s

November 17^th 1930 (Monday)

Boston cookies and Coconut Drop Cookies

Dahlen Harm

Just finished baking a double portion of Boston Cookies, and, because Ingwall gobbled down a few for lunch, I feel that they turned out good. Now I have just mixed up a portion (double by the wat) of Coconut Drop Cookies. We are having the Ladies Aid on Thursday, and we are trying to display our culinary skill.

Mama skipped over to our neighbors on the east side to do some inviting.

Boston Cookies

1 cup butter 3 ¼ cup flour

1 ½ cup sugar ½ tsp. salt

3 eggs 1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. soda 1 cup chopped nuts

1 ½ tbsp. hot water 1 cup raisins

(Dough must be quite soft)

Note: 2 tsp. baking powder to 1 cup flour when no eggs are used.

(I kind of wonder if this is a Spritz Cookies recipe, with the dough being soft, it would squeeze out well.)

Coconut Cookies

2 cupfuls brown sugar 3 cupfuls of flour

¾ cupful of shortening 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar

2 beaten eggs ¼ teaspoonful of salt

1 teaspoonful of vanilla 2 cupfuls of coconut

1 teaspoonful of soda

Cream the sugar and shortening together. Add the beaten eggs and vanilla and mix. Add the soda dissolved in 1 tablespoonful of hot water, then the flour sifted with the cream of tartar and salt. Add the coconut and mix to a dough. Shape into two long rolls, Chill until firm, then slice and bake in a moderate oven of 400 degrees for about 12 minutes.

A fine recipe.

New Berlin Ohio in the early 1900’s

Another recipe for;

Boston Cookies Or Rocks

1 cup butter & lard mixed

1 ½ cup sugar

3 eggs

½ teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons water

1 teaspoon soda

3 ½ cups flour

1 cup chopped nut meats (walnuts)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ cup currants

½ cup raisins

Drop by teaspoons on buttered pans and bake in moderate oven. Test with tooth pick.

Fruit Cake

1 pound of sugar

1 pound of flour

¾ pound of butter

7 eggs

1 lb. currants

1 lb. raisins seeded and chopped fine.

½ lb. citron cut into slips.

1 nutmeg, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, 1 of cloves, ½ glass of brandy and ½ glass of wine,

Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks, then the spice with the mixed whites alternately, with the flour, the fruit and brandy and wine last.

Soak the fruit in the wine and brandy overnight. Bake in a moderate oven from 2 ½ to 3 hours or longer.

White Cookies

1 ½ cup sugar

1 cup butter & lard mixed

1 cup sour milk

2 eggs

½ teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon cinnamon

1 small teaspoon soda

2 small teaspoons B. Powder

Little salt

Add flour stiff enough to roll out thin and sprinkle with sugar & bake on top of tins.

Ohio Fruit Cake

1 lb. raisins

1 lb. currants

¼ lb. citron

1 pint brown sugar (1 lb.)

1 nutmeg

1 tablespoon cinnamon

¾ tablespoon cloves

4 eggs

1 cup butter

1 cup sour milk or buttermilk

4 cups of flour sifted 3 or 4 times

1 dessertspoonful of soda

Do not put soda in milk, but add dry, sprinkling in last. Bake in moderate oven from 1 to 2 hrs.

Parkersburg Iowa 1937

Boston Drop Cookies

1 ½ cups shortening 4 cups flour

2 cups brown sugar 4 eggs beaten

1 cup raisins 2/3 tsp. salt

1 cup nuts 1 tsp. cinnamon

1 ½ tsp. soda in 1 Tblsp. Hot water

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs beaten and sifted dry ingredients. Add soda, raisins and nuts. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cooky sheet and bake for 15 or 20 min, in 350degree oven. Make 5 dozen cookies. – Mrs. Mabel Fisher, Villisca, Iowa.

Danish Cherry Kringle Very Good

Dissolve 1 small cake yeast in ½ cup warm water.

4 cups sifted flour 4 T. sugar 1 tsp. salt

Cut in 1 cup butter, add 3 egg yolks and 1 cup milk beaten together. Add the yeast, stir with fork, until well mixed.

Put in refrigerator overnight. Roll out ¼ in. thick on a floured board.

Make 2 large or 3 small.

Put pie filling in center, flip over one side over filling, then the other side over that. Place on greased baking sheet, bake at 350degrees – 15 to 20 min. Frost with powdered sugar & water frosting, sprinkle with nuts.