Old-fashioned soda cookies

Ingredients

• 2 c. sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 c. lard
• 1 c. sour milk or buttermilk
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• ½ tsp. nutmeg
• 1 tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. salt
• 4 to 6 c. flour

Instructions

1. Cream sugar, eggs and lard together; add sour milk, vanilla and nutmeg.
2. Sift soda, baking powder and salt with flour; mix to a stiff dough.
3. Roll out on bread board about 1/8-inch thick; cut with cookie cutter.
4. Sprinkle with additional sugar.
5. Bake in 275 to 300-degree oven until done. These cookies may be filled.

Note j'aime beaucoup ça. C'est tout simple mais ça doit bien se marier avec du chocolat ou de la confiture. Attention, ça fait beaucoup de biscuits. J'en ai eu 75. J'ai cuit 20 minutes à 300 degrés.

Pineapple cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 can (8¾ oz.) crushed pineapple, with juice
• 3½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• ¼ tsp. nutmeg
• ½ cup chopped nuts

Instructions

1. Mix shortening, sugar and egg thoroughly.
2. Stir in pineapple.
3. Stir together flour, soda, salt and nutmeg; blend in.
4. Mix in nuts.
5. Chill at least 1 hr.
6. Heat oven to 400°F.
7. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough about 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
8. Bake 8 to 10 min., or until no imprint remains when touched lightly.

Snow on the mountain cookies

1. Cream together
   • 1½ c. shortening
   • 1 c. brown sugar-light
   • 2 - 1. baker unsweetened squares melted
   • 1 well heated egg
2. Sift together
   • ¼ tsp salt
   • 2 c. flour
   • ¼ tsp. (baking) soda
3. add alternately with ½ c. buttermilk, 1 tsp. vanilla, ¾ c. chopped nuts
4. bake 12 min at 350°F
5. frost with powdered sugar frosting