Ingredients
- ½ - ⅓ of 5 pound rye
- ½ yeast cake, dissolved
- 2 tablespoons salt
- ¼ cup vinegar
- ⅓ cup molases
Preparation
- Make a soft dough with water and mash it up with wheat flour
Baking Directions
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| Original Recipe |
Notes & Memories
- Home baked Rye Bread was a staple in Grandma Thomsen's home. When she served it, it was sliced very thin and often accompanied with cheese.
- Will try to get more detail regarding this recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups flour
- chopped nuts
Preparation
- Separate egg yolks from whites
- Set egg whites aside
- Mix together all ingredients except egg whites and chopped nuts
- Form dough into balls
- Beat egg whites in a bowl and pour into shallow dish
- Put chopped nuts in a shallow dish
- Roll or dip balls into egg whites, then nuts
- Place balls on baking sheet
- Bake for 5 minutes
- Remove from oven and put a thumbprint in each cookie
- Put cookies back in oven and bake until light brown on bottom (about 5 minutes)
- Remove and cool.
- Fill thumbprint with red or green colored Powdered Sugar Frosting
Baking Directions
- 350 degree for 10 - 12 minutes
Notes & Memories
- Makes about 50 cookies
- Carolin likes these
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup chopped nuts
- ½ cup angel flake coconut
- ½ cup maraschino cherries, cut in small pieces (don't use cherry juice)
Preparation
- Mix all ingredients together with mixer
- Add nuts and cherries at the end and stir in
- Drop cookies on cookie sheet
- Bake
Baking Directions
- Bake 350 degrees for 12 minutes
Notes & Memories
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup dates
- 2 cups Rice Krispies
- 1½ cups chopped nuts
Preparation
- Beat eggs and mix with sugar and dates in double boiler.
- Cook over low heat until sugar is thoroughly dissolved and dates are like in date bars - about 6 minutes or so.
- Add Rice Krispies and chopped nuts
- Let cool a little so you can handle
- Butter hands and keep buttering them so you can use your hands to form the mixture into small balls
- Roll the small balls in coconut
- Cool (I think you refrigerate - dmg)
Refrigeration Directions
Notes & Memories
- Judy said she used more Rice Krispies and fewer nuts.
- A favorite of Deb
Ingredients
- ½ cup margarine
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup peanut butter
- vanilla
- 1¾ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 bag Brach's Chocolate Stars
Preparation
- Mix together margarine, sugar, egg, peanut butter and vanilla.
- Sift together flour, soda and salt.
- Mix everything together.
- Form dough into small balls.
- Roll each ball in sugar and place on baking sheet.
- Bake
- During the last 5 minutes of baking, press a chocolate star in the center of each cookie.
Baking Directions
- 375 degrees
- No time given
Notes & Memories
Ingredients
- 1 stick margarine
- 30 marshmallows
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ teaspoons green food coloring
- 3½ teaspoons Post Toasties or Corn Flakes
- 1 bag red hots
Preparation
- Melt margarine and marshmallows in double boiler
- Add vanilla and food coloring
- Mix in Post Toasties or Corn Flakes
- Drop a heaping teaspoonful of the the mixture on well greased cookie sheet. Don't press down.
- Add 3 red hots to each cookie (Have to work fast.)
- Let cool.
Notes & Memories
- Looks very pretty on a tray of cookies.
- A favorite of Carolin.
Ingredients - Meatballs
- 1 pound ground lean beef
- 1 pound ground pork
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 medium onion grated (enough to yield ½ cup onion)
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup milk (or maybe a little more)
Ingredients - Sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup vinegar
- 1 tablespoon mustard
Preparation
- Mix together meatball ingredients and form into meatballs
- Fry in in butter
- Place in greased baking dish
- Mix together sauce ingredients and pour over meatballs
- Heat in oven
Baking Directions
- No temperature given
- No time given
Notes & Memories
- Makes about 24 meatballs
- Favorite of Jess, Jenny, KC and Grace
