Great Great Aunt Jessies 1940s Ice Box Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Work 1/2 cup butter till creamy, 1 cup brown sugar- cream 1 cup or scant cup granulated sugar.
• Mix well and add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
• Sift 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tarter.
• Add to first mixture.
• Then add 1/2 cup broken nut meats.
• Pack in bowl and put in refridgerator to cool slightly- then make out in rolls.
• When very cold, slice and bake in temperature of 400*.
• 8 minutes.
• Aunt Jessie then scribbled"probably 15" to which I have no clue what that is referencing.

Steps:

• Sift together first five ingredients; set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla and lemon extract; beat well. Add dry ingredients; mix well. Stir in nuts. , Divide dough into four parts and shape into 11x1-1/2-in. rolls. Wrap in foil and chill overnight. , Slice cookies 3/8 in. thick. Bake on greased baking sheets at 350° for about 10 minutes.

Steps:

• In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon together until evenly blended; set aside. Beat the margarine, white sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the margarine mixture before adding the next. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the chopped nuts; mixing just enough to evenly combine.
• Scrape the dough onto a sheet of waxed paper, and form into a log. Roll tightly in the waxed paper, and refrigerate until firm, about 4 hours.
• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray baking sheets with cooking spray.
• Unwrap the dough, and cut into 1/4-inch slices. Place the cookies onto baking sheets, spaced 1-inch apart. Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Tenderize steak (Porter House).
• Wipe off steak.
• Place on broiler and put under a high flame.
• Sear about 3 minutes on one side, turn and sear on the other side- just before it is done, salt on both sides.
• Broil 15 to 20 minutes, turning occasionally while broiling.
• When done the meat should be rather solid when pressed with the bow of a fork.
• Place meat on a board (plank) that has been soaked in water.
• Put mashed potatoes in pastry bag and put a border around steak and around edge of plank.
• Make little pockets with potatoes.
• Fill up with tomatoes and put in oven and allow to heat.
• Remove and put (recipe paper torn off partially here)--, garnish with carrots.

Steps:

• 1. Cream together the Butter, Oil and Sugars in a very large bowl 2. Beat in the Eggs 3. Stir in the Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves and Salt 5. Add the Flour 1 Cup at a time, and stir well 6. Add the Hot Water to moisten the batter just a bit 7. Now stir in the Walnuts 8. Roll and shape dough into desired length (I usually go with 2 1/2 inches wide by 12 inch long rolls, you should get about 4 rolls) then wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. You can keep the dough in the refrigerator for several days if you want to make the dough ahead of time. 9. When ready to bake, Preheat oven to 375 degrees, slice the dough into 1/2 inch slices, then place on an nongreased cookie sheet 10. Bake the cookies until the edges are golden brown, about 15 minutes 11. Cool on brown paper (I use a cookie cooling rack) ~makes about 80 cookies Note: any unused dough or cookie slices should be kept in the refrigerator until they go directly in the oven. The cold dough is easier to slice and helps the cookie retain it's shape. For you you youngsters out there, "Icebox" is an old term referring to an old style refrigerator of sorts. Before homes had electricity they would have an Icebox, usually made of wood that had blocks of ice in it, to keep food items cold. Once the refrigerator was developed, some people still called their refrigerator "the Ice box". So the recipe name "Old Fashioned Ice Box Cookies" refers to the fact that you refrigerate the cookie dough before baking and since this is a very old recipe, they still referred to the fridge as an Ice Box.