Bygone Recipes – Biscuits

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• 1 cup chopped almonds (approx. 150g)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 egg yolks
• 1½ cups flour (approx. 180g)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. Mix in the order given.
2. Chill, roll, brush with white of egg, sprinkle with granulated sugar, cut, and bake in a quick oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites
• ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons Lowney’s Always Ready Chocolate Powder
• ¼ cup flour (approx. 30g)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• confectioner’s sugar

Method

1. Beat whites; add cream of tartar and sugar, and continue beating.
2. Cut and fold in salt, chocolate, flour.
3. Flavor and drop by spoonfuls on to a buttered sheet; sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar and bake in a moderate oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 egg
• 3 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate (84g)
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons milk

Method

1. Cream butter; add remaining ingredients.
2. Chill, roll, and shape.
3. Bake in a moderate oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup chopped walnut meats (approx. 60g)
• ½ cup chopped figs (approx. 75g)
• ½ cup almond paste (check ingredients for UPF’s) (110g)
• grated rind of orange
• 2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, melted (56g)
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• orange juice
• sugar

Method

1. Mix the ingredients with enough orange juice to make the mixture of the consistency to spread.
2. Knead on a sugared board.
3. Cut in shape of dominoes, coat with melted chocolate, and decorate with pieces of almonds.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, grated (56g)
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g) and enough more flour to roll out.
• 1 tablespoon milk

Method

1. Mix in the order given, toss on to a floured board, and roll to an inch in thickness.
2. Cut out with a doughnut cutter.
3. Just before putting into the oven, dust over with granulated sugar and bake ten minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1¼ cups flour (approx. 150g)
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, melted

Method

1. Mix in the order given.
2. Beat well.
3. Pour into buttered pans in thin layers.
4. Bake in quick oven six to eight minutes.
5. Cut in long narrow strips while hot, and serve cold.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter (55g)
• ½ cup powdered sugar (approx. 62g)
• 2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, grated (56g)
• ¼ cup milk (60ml)
• 1 cup flour (approx. 120g)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (approx. 120g)
• ½ teaspoon salt

Method

1. Cream butter; add dry ingredients, milk and flavoring.
2. Spread on inverted pans which have been well buttered. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
3. Bake in moderate oven.
4. Crease immediately on removing from oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter (165g)
• 2 cups sugar (approx. 400g)
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk (240ml)
• 8 tablespoons chocolate
• 2¼ cups flour (approx. 270g)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon clove
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Method

1. Cream the butter, add the sugar, the chocolate melted, eggs well beaten, flour sifted with baking powder, salt and spices, and the milk.
2. Beat well, and bake in angel cake pan.
3. Frost with Chocolate or Marshmallow Frosting.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• ¼ to ½ cup butter, suet, or chicken fat (55-110g)
• 3 cups flour (approx. 360g)
• ½ teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 2 teaspoons salt

Method

1. Boil shortening and molasses two minutes.
2. Add remaining ingredients, mixed and sifted. Beat well; chill over night.
3. Roll very thin. Shape with knife or cutter. Bake on buttered pan in quick oven eight to ten minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1½ cups butter (337g)
• 2½ cups sugar (approx. 500g)
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda
• ¼ cup milk (60ml)
• 3 teaspoons ginger
• 8 cups flour (approx. 960g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add remaining ingredients. Spread quarter inch thick on buttered inverted dripping pan.
2. Roll with creased rolling pin.
3. Bake in quick oven.
4. Cut in squares.
5. Cool and keep in air-tight receptacles.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter (165g)
• 1 cup brown sugar (approx. 200g)
• 2 eggs
• ¾ teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoon hot water
• 2½ cups flour (approx. 300g)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon each, clove, mace and nutmeg
• 1 cup raisins (approx. 160g)

Method

1. Mix ingredients in order given.
2. Roll mixture one quarter inch thick.
3. Shape with cooky cutter.
4. Put one raisin in center of each round.
5. Bake in moderate oven twelve to fifteen minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 2 to 4 tablespoons butter or beef suet (28 to 56g)
• ½ cup boiling water (120ml)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. Mix and sift dry ingredients; add remaining ingredients.
2. Bake twenty to thirty minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup butter (76g)
• ⅓ cup boiling water (80ml)
• ⅔ cup molasses (160ml)
• 1 teaspoon soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• flour

Method

1. Pour boiling water over butter; add remaining ingredients, using sufficient flour to make a drop batter.
2. Drop from tablespoon on to buttered tin.
3. Bake in moderate oven fifteen minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter (165g)
• 1½ cups flour (approx. 180g)
• 5 eggs
• 1-¾ cups powdered sugar (approx. 219g)
• 1 tablespoon yellow ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Method

1. Cream butter; add flour.
2. Add remaining ingredients and beat ten minutes.
3. Bake in buttered bread pan forty-five to sixty minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter (55g)
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup flour (approx. 120g)
• ¼ cup milk (60ml)
• 1 cup chopped nut meats (approx. 130g)
• flavoring

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar, yolks well beaten, flour, baking powder, and salt, milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth, and enough more flour to make of consistency to roll.
2. Add nuts; drop from a teaspoon on to buttered sheet. Decorate with halves of nuts.
3. Bake in quick oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 egg
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon mixed with
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• ½ cup blanched almonds (approx. 72g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar, yolks well beaten, flour, baking powder, and salt, milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth, and enough more flour to make of consistency to roll.; roll; shape with doughnut cutter; brush with water or white of egg; sprinkle with cinnamon mixture.
2. Decorate with halves of almonds. Bake in a quick oven.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• 1 cup sour milk (240ml)
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 2 teaspoons soda
• ½ teaspoon salt

Method

1. Mix and sift dry ingredients; add remaining ingredients, beat well, pour into buttered pan, and bake twenty to thirty minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 tablespoon milk
• flavoring
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar, yolks well beaten, flour, baking powder, and salt, milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth, and enough more flour to make of consistency to roll.
2. Cut off a small piece of dough, roll on floured board, sprinkle with granulated sugar, shape with cooky cutter, and bake ten minutes.
3. Save all trimmings until the last.
4. Do not mix trimmings with fresh dough.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup butter (76g)
• 1 cup molasses (240ml)
• 1 cup boiling water (240ml)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
• 3 cups flour (approx. 360g)
• 1½ teaspoons soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. Mix ingredients in order given.
2. Beat well and bake in loaf thirty minutes, or in muffin pans twenty minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard

Ingredients

• 1 cup soft shortening (227g Lard)
• 2 cups brown sugar (approx. 400g)
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup sour milk or buttermilk (120ml)
• 3½ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (385g plain flour)
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. salt

Method

1. Mix together the shortening, sugar and eggs.
2. Stir in the milk.
3. Sift together the flour, soda and salt then stir into the mixture.
4. Chill at least 1 hour.
5. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2″ apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
6. Bake until set … just until, when touched lightly with finger, almost no imprint remains.
7. To prevent drop cookies spreading … chill dough, peak it up, be sure oven temperature is correct.

Baking

• TEMPERATURE: 400° (mod. hot oven).
• TIME: Bake 8 to 10 min.

Quantity

• About 6 doz. 2½″ cookies.

Title

Betty Crocker Picture Cooky Book

Author

General Mills Company – Betty Crocker was not a real person; she was a fictional persona created in 1921 by the Washburn-Crosby Company (which later became General Mills).