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Directions:Cream sugars and shortening. Add the eggs beaten and vanilla. Sift flour, soda, and salt together and add slowly to the mixture.
For oatmeal crispies
Add raisins which have been cooked in the water until the water has been boiled out. Add oatmeal and nuts.
For chocolate chip
Add chocolate chips and nuts.
For ice box nut
Add nuts. Work into rolls and keep in ice box for future use.
For coconut macaroons
Add the shredded coconut
For date wheels
Chop dates into small pieces. Add 2 tbsp flour and 1 c sugar and 1 c water. Cook and stir until thickened. Let cool.
Roll out cookie dough which is a rich mixture and hard to handle. Spread date mixture over cookie dough and roll. Let stand in refrigerator for 24 hours before slicing and baking.
For Peanut Butter
Add plain or chunk peanut butter to dough. Drop and press with fork. |
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Notes: This recipe is from the Hawaii Missionary Conference Ministers’ Wives cookbook. The Hawaii conference is one of the antecedents of The California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. This cookbook was put together in the 1950s. Both my father and may maternal grandfather served as ministers in that conference, overlapping for 1 year. My mother and maternal grandmother were in the ministers’ wives association.
The title of the recipe is from Hawaii pidgin. It means roughly “that cookie, you know the one I mean.” I’ve copied it pretty much word for word. And that’s right, there was no temperature or expected quantity, and package is given as a measurement. I would guess 400° for 10 minutes or so, based on other cookie recipes.
As for the package measurements, I’m going to guess the date package is a pound, based on my Grandma’s date cookie recipe. And, I expect that the chocolate chip package is the standard 12 oz.
It has been a long time, but I used to make cookies from this recipe. I especially made the icebox cookies when I was in college. I could keep the cookie roll in the freezer, and slice of a few and cook them to have fresh cookies. Unfortunately, my brothers liked to grab the rolls out of the freezer and eat the dough raw, so I didn’t get as many of my cookies as I would have liked.
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