• 1 c. soft margarine
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 c. sugar

Stir in:

• 2 3/4 c. flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Chill dough overnight.  Roll into balls the size of small walnuts, roll in mixture of 2 T. sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon.  Bake at 400 for 8-10 mins.

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My favorite cookies ever.

Mix and drop on greased cookie sheet. Bake in 400 degree oven until brown.

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This recipe is super stained and has lots of ancient bits of crushed pineapple on it.  It is always my belief that if a recipe is well-stained, it must be good.  I don’t know how I feel about pineapple cookies though.  I am not a big fan of the pineapple, unless it is soaked in tequila or on a ham pizza, but I would be willing to try this stained recipe out on my guinea pig friends.

Preheat oven to 350.  Cream butter or margarine and sugar together; add pumpkin, egg and vanilla, mixing well. Add sifted dry ingredients, blend well; add nuts. Drop from teaspoon on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool. Frost with Penuche Frosting. Yields 6 1/2 dozen.

Penuche Frosting

combine 3 T. butter and 1/2 c. brown sugar in saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook and stir 1 minute or until slightly thickened. Cool about 15 minutes. Add 1/4 c. milk and beat smooth; add enough powdered sugar (about 2 c.) for spreading consistency.

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I forgot all about these cookies, and Penuche Frosting until I found this recipe.  This was the ONLY way I would eat pumpkin as a kid, so at Thanksgiving or Christmas Grandma always had to make these cookies AND pie.  What a little twerp I was.

• 2 2/3 c. coconut-Angel Flake
• 2/3 c. sugar
• 1/4 c. flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 4 egg whites
• vanilla
• 1 c. chopped almonds

Combine coconut, sugar, flour, and salt.  Stir in egg whites and flavoring.  Mix well.  Drop by tsp. on lightly greased baking sheets.  Bake at 325 for 20-25 mins.  until edges are brown.

There is an X next to the almonds, and they are not mentioned in the recipe at all, so I am wondering if they are not supposed to be in there.  Did I mention that my Grandma has Alzheimer’s?

• 1/2 c. soft butter
• 1 1/2 c. light brown sugar
• 1 1/4 c. c. sifted flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 c. chopped nuts
• 3 1/2 oz. flaked coconut

Cream butter and 1/2 c. of the sugar.  Add 1 c. of the flour and mix well.  Pat into greased 13x9x2 inch pan. Bake in moderate oven (375) 12 minutes.  Mix remaining 1 c. sugr, 1/4 c. flour and other ingredients. Spread evenly over mixture in pan. Bake 20 minutes.Cut in bars while warm. Cool. Store airtight.

• 2 c. brown sugar
• 1 c. butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 c. sour milk
• 3 1/2 c. flour
• 1 tsp soda
• 2 tsp. baking powder

Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, vanilla. Mix dry ingredients together and add alternating with the milk. Bake at 350 on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Frosting

• 3 T. brown sugar
• 3 T. soft oleo (or butter)
• 3 T. cream or evaporated milk
• vanilla

Melt together, cool.  Add powdered sugar to desired consistency.

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I remember eating these cookies one winter when we went to the Midwest for Christmas.  My Grandmother loved them. I am sure I did too, I don’t think I have ever met a cookie I didn’t like.

• 1 c. white sugar
• 1 c. brown sugar
• 1 scant cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 c. peanut butter
• 3 c. flour

Mix and drop by spoonful on greased sheet.

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Bake these at 375 for about ten minutes.  You can use smooth or crunchy peanut butter, I like them with crunchy.  You could also get fancy and use almond butter or any of the other fantastic nut butters out there now.  I have typed the word nut way too much today.

Mix butter, sugar and vanilla.  Work in flour, salt and nuts until dough holds together.  Shape into small balls using rounded tsp.  Bake at 400 for 10-12 mins.  or until set but not brown.  Roll in powdered sugar while warm.  Cool, roll in sugar again.  Store in tightly covered container or freeze.

Cream butter, oil, sugars, and eggs & vanilla.  Add dry ingredients.  Roll into balls, flatten with glass dipped in sugar.  Or may be dropped by teaspoonfuls.  Bake at 350 for 8-10 mins.

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• 2 c. butter
• 1 c. brown sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 pkg. (12oz) chocolate chips
• 2 c. sugar
• 4 eggs
• 4 1/2 c. flour
• 2 tsp baking soda

Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients, mix well.  Add chocolate chips.  Bake at 375 for 8-10 mins.

Such a simple recipe for all the evil it contains.  (oh and the cookies are really good, and yes, they are better than my Mom’s.  Shh.)