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These recipes are taken from little tin recipe boxes.  You remember, the kind your mother had on top the stove back in the 50's and 60's. Other decades are included. I draw the line at the 70's.  lol  That's where I stopped aging!

Handed down from generation to generation, from mother to daughter.  I collect these old recipes from yard sales, eBay, thrift shops, my relatives and anywhere I can find them.  All were hand written or typed on recipe cards. 

I add recipes as I find them.  Enjoy, all are free.
More pages of cookie recipes below:
Cookie Recipes.
Vintage Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Pinwheel Cookies
Oatmeal Cookies.
Delicious Brownies.
Ice Box Cookies.
Cookies II.
Raisen Drop Cookies by Noma Lemmon

Cream 1 cup shortening and 1 1/2 cups sugar.

Add 3 eggs and mix well.

Sift together 3 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg and a pinch of salt.

Add alternately to creamed mixture with

1/2 cup hot water, mix well.
Last add 1 cup raisens or currrents.
Bake in (450) oven until brown.
Makes 90 cookies.
Read, "The Story of the Missing Cookie Jar" by PenVampyre.  A delightful little Christmas story with mouthwatering  recipes for the most wonderful time of the year!  
 
Read "
Santa and the Magic Key", plus recipes for your holidays.  A story by Robin Wallace.

Read "Easter and Where NOT to Hide Eggs" 
Memories of Easters past and a few vintage recipes.

Logan's Halloween Story -The original story won first place in sixth-eighth grade division of Southeastern Middle School, 2005 by Logan Lyon

Food and Genealogy.  A story By Robin L. Wallace. 
Our lives, our families, our very history's are defined by the foods we eat.

Family Reunion Recipes.
"The Fourth of July and Other Disasters"
(With Apologies to Jean Shepherd)
By Robin L. Wallace

A short story by Suellen Fry. 
Memories of my father and his version of Kickapoojoyjuice.

Memorial Day Recipes - "For me, Memorial Day was the day when we went out where relatives were buried in the tiny, local cemeteries and thoroughly cleaned up each gravesite, carrying away branches that may have fallen in the winter.................."

Grandma Irwin's
Story of Courage and Swit Tater Biskits Recipe

Home Remedies Medicines Recipes From Olden Times.

Thanksgiving Day recipes and story from the past.

College Foods and Other Mistakes I Have Eaten.

Raisin Jumbo cookies
2 cups raisins
1 cup water
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup shortening
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts.
Bring raisins and water to a boil.  Boil until the raisins are plump--about 3 minutes.  Cool.  Sift flour, baking powder, soda, salt, and spices together and mix well.  Stir in the raisins and any remaining water.  Gradually add the flour mixture, blending thoroughly after each addition.  Stir in nuts. Drop by tablespoons about 1 inch apart on greased baking sheets.  Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 12 to 15 minutes.  Makes about 3 1/2 dozen.


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