Recipes

Lemon-aid Sugar Cookies

3 c. sifted flour
1 c. butter or margarine
2 eggs beaten
4 tbsp. Frozen lemon-aid concentrate
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Baking soda
Cream together flour, sugar and butter. Add eggs and soda. Stir in lemonade. Add vanilla. Chill dough for 1 hour. Roll out and cut in shapes with cookie cutters. Sprinkle with colored sugar. Bake on a greased cookie sheet 8 - 10 minutes in a 400^o oven. Instead of the sugar on top they can be frosted.
Variation: Orange Sugar cookies - substitute orange juice for the lemon-aid and add 2 Tbsp. Grated orange peel.

Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

1 ½ c. brown sugar, firmly packed
1 c. granulated sugar
1 c. shortening
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tbsp. Milk
1 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 c. uncooked oatmeal
1 c. raisins
1 c. chopped nuts
1 c. chocolate or butterscotch chips
2 eggs
Cream sugar and shortening; blend in eggs, vanilla and milk, until smooth. Sift together dry ingredients and add all at once to egg mixture. Beat until smooth. Add oatmeal; mix well. Add raisins, nuts, and chocolate or butterscotch chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet, about 2" apart. Bake 8 - 10 minutes in 350^o oven.(6 doz.)

Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

1 ½ c. shortening
3 eggs
2 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Vanilla
4 c. flour
1 c. coconut
6 oz. Chocolate chips
1 c. cherries cut up
½ tsp. Salt
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. Cinnamon
1 lb. Raisins
2 c. water
3 c. rolled oats
1 c. nuts(chopped)
Boil raisins for 10 minutes in 2 c. water. Set aside. Combine shortening, sugar and eggs; beat well. Sift 3 times: flour, cinnamon, soda, salt. Ad alternately to egg mixture with 2 c. liquid from raisins. Add raisins, oatmeal, nuts and cherries. Add coconut and vanilla. Mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes in 375^o to 400^o oven.

Raspberry Bars

½ c. butter
1 c. flour
1 tsp. Baking powder
1 egg
1 tbsp. Milk
Raspberry jam
Cream butter, flour and baking powder. Add egg and milk. Press into an 8 x 8 inch pan. Spread with 4 tbsp. Raspberry jam.

Top with:
1 c. sugar
1 tbsp. Butter
1 egg
2 c. coconut
1 tbsp vanilla
Mix sugar and butter; add egg, coconut and vanilla. Bake 325^o25 minutes. Cool and cut into bars to serve.

Rocky Road Brownies

3 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 c. butter
4 eggs
2 c. sugar
2 c. flour
½ tsp. Salt
2 tsp. Vanilla
nuts, optional
2 c. mini marshmallows
Melt chocolate and butter together and cool. Beat the sugar and eggs together well, then add chocolate mixture and mix well. Add flour, salt and beat together. Grease pan and bake for 20 minutes at 375^o. Sprinkle marshmallows on top of hot brownies and return to oven for a moment to puff marshmallows. Flatten marshmallows with a wet spoon.

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