Stapleton Family Cookbook 1900 through the 1950s; Denver Colorado (pics in 2020 june)

Mrs. Greenie – Laurelton, May 17, 1920

Brown Betty         

3 cups bread crumbs

1 qt. apples (finely chopped)

¼ cup butter

1 cup sugar

Nutmeg

½ lemon (grated rind & peel)     

Use fresh crumbs, melt butter and mix with crumbs, mix sugar, spices & lemon.  Put together alternate layers, having crumbs on top and bottom.  Bake 40 minutes in good oven, cover half way through. 

Enis Greenie – Laurelton L.J. 5/17/20

Thousand Island Cookies                        

1 cup sugar                                   2 cups flour

1 cup shortening                         ¾ ts. Soda in flour & 1 teas. B.P.

2 eggs                                                2 cups rolled oats

6 ts. Milk (1/3 c. +1)                   1 cup chopped raisins

1 ts. Cinnamon

1 ts. Cloves

Drop from spoon 375degrees.

Peanut Cookies

Eve Green – Laurelton, L.E.  5-17

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

10 ts. Butter (melted)

4 ts. Water

2 cups peanuts (chopped)

½ ts. B.P.

2 ½ cups flour

1 ts. Vanilla

Dough should be quite stiff.  Drop with teaspoon on buttered tins – flatten quite thin. 

Sauris North Dakota 1920 – 30’s

Olson Family Cookbook

Peanut Cookies                                             

2 c. brown sugar                              1 tsp. soda

1 c. butter                                         1 tsp. baking powder

2 c. oatmeal                                      1 c. salted peanuts

2 c. flour

2 eggs

Mix like ordinary cookies, roll into small balls & pat down.

Makes quite many

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