1927 Luscious Cakes and Cookies - Part III

Cookies
BROWNIES
Three tablespoons shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 oz. melted unsweetened chocolate, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1-3 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar baking powder. 1/4 teaspoon salt, 4 cup not meats chopped—not too fine.
Melt shortening; add sugar and unbeaten egg; mix well; add chocolate, vanilla and milk; add flour which has been sifted with baking powder and salt; add nut meats; mix well. Spread thinly on greased shallow cake pan and bake in slow oven (300 degrees F.) 20 to 30 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares before removing from pan. If desired 1/4 cup raisins and 1/4 cup nuts can be used in place of 1/2 cup nuts.

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JACK FROST TRIANGLES 
Half cup shortening, 1 cup granulated sugar, 2-3 cup milk, 1 teaspoon almond or vanilla, 2 cups pastry flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, teaspoon salt, 2 egg whites. Cream shortening until light and creamy, add sugar slowly, add milk and flavoring very slowly, beating continually. Stir in flour sifted with dry ingredients, fold in beaten egg whites. Pour into greased goldenrod pans and, bake in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) for 20 minutes. Cool and cover the triangles with pistachio icing, then drip over this a little white icing to represent icicles.

There is no recipe for pistachio icing given so I guess it's assumed you can figure one out. You will note that this calls the cookies to be baked in a "goldenrod pan". These were a specific pan that I've never actually seen an example of, there's a picture here (on the lower left). One of the neat things that I discovered when researching this pan is that public libraries in Iowa circulate baking pans and they have over 2000 pans in their catalog.

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HERMITS
One cup brown sugar, I-3 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup thick sour milk, 1/2 cup seedless raisins, 1/2 cup chopped nut meats, 1 3/4 cups pastry flour, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon soda, 1/4 teaspoon powdered nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon powdered cloves, 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon. Cream, sugar and shortening. Add unbeaten eggs, one at a time and beat until well creamed. Add raisins and nuts and mix well. Fold in sifted dry ingredients. Spread thinly on greased baking pan and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.). Cut in squares. or, mixture may be dropped from a spoon on to the baking sheet.

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POPPY SEED COOKIES 
Poppy seed cookies are very delicious. Soak a cup of poppy seed in 1/2 a cup of hot milk. Cream 1/2 a cup of butter with 1/2 a cup of sugar, add two ounces of sweet chocolate in powder, or melted over hot water, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup currants, 1 1/4 cups of flour and the poppy seeds. Drop from teaspoon in buttered and floured pan and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven.

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POPCORN LACE COOKIES
One tablespoon butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped popped corn, 1/8 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 egg.
Cream butter. Add sugar mixed with baking powder and salt. Cream well. Add beaten egg  and mix. Add chopped popped corn and stir well. Drop by teaspoon-(uls on a greased baking sheet or inverted pan. Flatten with knife before putting in oven. These cookies will spread on baking, so do not place too close together. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for 10 minutes. When done, cookies are delicately brown and thin and lacy. Remove from pan while still warm, as they become very brittle when cold. If they become too crisp, may be returned to oven to heat until they soften. Will make 25 small cookies.

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JUMBLES
One cup flour, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup sliced dates, 1/4 cup walnut meats broken in pieces, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup milk.
Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Put rolled oats through the food chopper, then mix with flour, add dates and nut meats. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, then well beaten egg and milk. Combine two mixtures; add vanilla. Pack in wax paper-lined pan Chill over night. Roll out and cut with round cutter, having hole in center. Place on a well oiled baking sheet and bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 20 minutes. recipe will make about 20 cookies.