Betty Crocker – Refrigerator Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup soft shortening (227g Lard)
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• ½ cup brown sugar (approx 100g)
• 2 eggs
• 2¾ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (approx. 303g plain flour)
• ½ tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 to 3 tsp. cinnamon or use 1½ tsp. vanilla (add with eggs).

Method

1. Mix together the shortening, sugar and eggs.
2. Sift together and stir in the flour, soda, salt and cinnamon.
3. Mix thoroughly with hands. Press and mould into a long smooth roll about 2½″ in diameter. Wrap in waxed paper, and chill until stiff (several hours or overnight).
4. With a thin, sharp knife, cut in thin slices ⅛″ to ¹⁄₁₆″ thick.
5. Place slices a little apart on ungreased baking sheet.
6. Bake until lightly browned.

Baking

• Bake in a mod. hot oven for 6 to 8 minutes.
• 190°C–200°C, 375°F–400°F , Gas Mark 5–6, Fan 170°C–180°C

Quantity

• About 6 doz. 2½″ cookies.

Variations

• Nut Refrigerator Cookies – Follow recipe above and mix into dough ½ cup (approx. 75g) cut-up blanched almonds or black walnuts or other nuts.
• Date-Nut Refrigerator Cookies – Follow recipe above using both cinnamon and vanilla. Mix into dough ½ cup finely chopped nuts (approx. 65g) and ½ cup finely cut dates (approx. 87g).
• Orange-Almond Refrigerator Cookies – Follow recipe above—but omit cinnamon. Stir 1 tbsp. grated orange rind into shortening mixture. Mix into dough ½ cup (approx. 75g) cut-up blanched almonds.
• Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies – Follow recipe above—but omit the cinnamon. Blend 2 sq. unsweetened chocolate (2 oz.) (56g), melted and cooled, into the shortening mixture.

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).