Aunt Jenny’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookies Recipe Book Page 2 and 3
Here you will notice pages 2-3 of the Vintage Spry cookbook “Aunt Jenny’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookies”,published in 1952 and distributed by Lever Brothers Company
HOW TO MAKE A
Christmas Cookie Wonderland
BASIC LIGHT DOUGH
Combine and beat thoroughly:
1 cup hom*ogenized Spry
2/3 cup sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons vanilla (or 1 teaspoon almond extract, 3/4 teaspoon vanilla, and 3/4 teaspoon orange extract)
2 unbeaten eggs
Add…2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour and mix well.
Roll…small portions of dough 1/8″ or 1/4″ thick on floured cloth or board.
Cut…with assorted cookie cutters. Place on Sprycoated baking sheets 1″ apart.
Bake…in moderately hot oven (375°F.) 8-10 minutes, or until a delicate light brown. Makes about 4 dozen.
Dark Dough. Add 2 oz. chocolate, melted, and 2 teaspoons milk in first mixing step.
A Cookie Wonderland from Santa’s Kitchen
HOW TO MAKE A CHRISTMAS COOKIE WONDERLAND.Using both light and dark doughs, make the following cutouts with assorted cookie cutters. Or lay cardboard patterns on the dough and cut around edges with sharp knife.
SANTA CLAUS. Cut light dough with Santa Claus cutter. Brush with unbeaten egg white, sprinkle suit with red sugar. Bake. When cool, outline fur trim and features with white icing; make boots of melted chocolate. Make toys in pack with tiny colored candies.
CHRISTMAS TREE. Cut light dough with Christmas tree cutter. Brush with egg white, sprinkle with green sugar and a few multicolored candies. Place a silver dragee at tip of each branch.
ANGEL. Cut out angels from light dough. Brush with egg white, sprinkle robe with blue sugar, hair with yellow sugar. Bake and cool. Frost hands, face, and wings with white icing.
BELL. Cut light dough with bell cutter. Brush with egg white, sprinkle with green sugar, make clapper with bit of cherry. Make a small hole in top of bell with toothpick. When baked, draw cord through hole and tie cookie on Christmas tree.
STAR. Cut light dough with star cutter. Decorate with colored sugars and dragees before baking, or frost after baking.
HOLLY WREATH. Frost with green frosting; arrange 3 clusters of 3 red cinnamon candies to resemble holly berries. Or, before baking, brush with egg white; arrange bits of cherries and citron to resemble holly.
COOKIE BOY. Cut dark dough with ginger boy cutters. Use bits of raisins for eyes and nose, cherries for mouth, nuts for buttons. Bake and cool. Outline and trim with white icing.
TOYLAND PARADE. Using both light and dark doughs, cut camels, elephants, dogs, teddy bears, lambs, horses, donkeys, reindeer, birds, turkeys, etc. Decorate before baking by brushing with egg white and sprinkling with colored sugars and colored candies. Bake and cool. Trim the cookies with white and colored frostings. Frost some of the cut-outs with colored frostings and decorate.
PUNCH OR EGGNOG WAFERS
Use recipe forBasic Light Dough. Roll dough very thin (1/16″ thick) and use as follows:
Cinnamon Diamonds. Cut with diamond-shaped cutter. Brush with egg white, sprinkle with mixture of 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 3 tablespoons sugar. Press pecan half in center. Bake at 375°F. 5-8 minutes.
Pretty Scallops. Cut with round scalloped 2″ cutter, brush with egg white, sprinkle with tiny multicolored candies. Bake at 375°F. 5-8 minutes.
Fluted Stars. Cut with fluted star cutter, brush with egg white, sprinkle with sugar, put raisin in center. Bake at 375°F. 5-8 minutes.
Cherry Circles. Cut with round 2″ cutter, brush with egg white, sprinkle with mixture of equal parts of finely chopped almonds and sugar. Put a candied cherry half in center. Bake at 375°F. 5-8 minutes.
Festive Cherry-ettes
Combine and cream well:
3/4 cup hom*ogenized Spry
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vanilla
Add:
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 cup finely chopped pecans, and mix into a soft dough.
Shape…into balls about 1″ in diameter. Place on Sprycoated baking sheets. Press a little hole in center of each ball with tip of finger and place half a candied cherry in each.
Bake…in slow oven (325° F.) 25 minutes. Makes 40.
Snowy Christmas Cakes. Shape dough in small finger-shaped rolls about 2″ x 1/2″; or in small balls, letters, or crescents. Bake as directed. Coat while hot by shaking in a paper bag with confectioners’ sugar. Cool and again coat with sugar.
Black Walnut Cookies. Use chopped black walnuts instead of pecans. Use only 1 tablespoon vanilla. Shape as for Snowy Christmas Cakes.
Almond Cherry-Tops. Use 1 cup unblanched ground toasted almonds instead of pecans. Use 1 tablespoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon almond extract instead of 2 tablespoons vanilla.
Tiny Tim Fruitcake Cookies
Combine and beat thoroughly:
1/2 cup hom*ogenized Spry
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
2 unbeaten eggs
Sift together:
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon soda; add to Spry mixture and blend.
Add…1/4 cup buttermilk or sour milk and blend.
Add:
1 cup currants
1 cup seedless raisins
3/4 cup mixed candied fruits and peels, cut fine (or 1/4 cup citron and 1/2 cup candied cherries)
1 cup chopped walnuts and mix well.
Drop…rounded tablespoons of dough on Spry coated baking sheets.
Bake…in moderate oven (350°F.) 18-22 minutes.
Frost…tops of cookies with Creamy Vanilla Frosting, page 21. Decorate with bits of candied cherries and citron. Makes 3 dozen.
For a sparkling, transparent glazeon Tiny Tim Fruitcake Cookies, omit frosting and make Vanilla Glaze as follows: Put 1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar, 1 tablespoon soft butter or margarine, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 2 1/2 tablespoons scalded milk in bowl and beat until creamy. As soon as fruitcake cookies are baked, remove them from baking sheet and, while still hot, spread with a thin coating of the glaze. Makes glaze for 3 dozen cookies.
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