Betty Crocker – Sugar Jumbles

Ingredients

• ½ cup soft shortening (113g half Lard, half butter)
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1⅛ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (approx. 124g plain flour)
• ¼ tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. salt

Method

1. Mix together the shortening, sugar, egg and vanilla.
2. Sift together and stir in, the flour, soda and, salt.
3. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2″ apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
4. Bake until delicately browned, cookies should still be soft. Cool slightly, then remove from baking sheet.

Baking

• Bake in a quick mod. oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
• 190°C–200°C, 375°F–400°F , Gas Mark 5–6, Fan 170°C–180°C

Quantity

• About 3 doz. 2″ cookies.

Variations

• Coconut Jumbles – Follow recipe above and mix into the dough 1 cup moist shredded coconut (approx. 90g).
• Chocolate Chip Cookies – Follow recipe above except in place of ½ cup sugar use ¾ cup (approx. 150g) (half brown, half white). Then mix into the dough ½ cup cut-up nuts (approx. 65g) and one 7-oz. package chocolate pieces (about 1¼ cups) (196g).
• Orange-Chocolate Chip Cookies – Follow recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies and add 1 tsp. grated orange rind to the shortening mixture.
• 3-In-1 Jumbles – Follow recipe above—and divide dough into three parts. Choco-Nut: To one part, add ½ sq. unsweetened chocolate (½ oz.) (14g), melted, and drop whole nutmeats (½ cup)(approx. 65g) into it coating each thoroughly. Coco-Nut: To another part, add ½ cup moist shredded coconut (approx. 45g). Date-Nut: Leave third part plain and drop nut-stuffed dates (14) into it coating each thoroughly. Each coated date and each coated nut makes a cooky.
• Glazed Orange Jumbles – Follow recipe above mix into dough 1½ tsp. grated orange rind and, if desired, 1 cup chopped nuts (approx. 130g). Bake. While hot, dip tops of cookies in orange glaze (⅓ cup sugar (approx. 67g), 3 tbsp. orange juice, 1 tsp. grated orange rind, heated together).
• Brazil or Pecan Jumbles – Follow recipe above and stir into the dough 2 cups (approx. 260g) cut-up Brazil or other nuts.

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).