Betty Crocker – Brown Sugar Drops

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

• Bake in a mod. hot 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 6 doz. 2½″ cookies.

Variations

• Holiday Fruit Cookies – Elegant. Richly studded with fruits and nuts. Butterscotch-flavoured. Perfect for your loveliest hospitality
  • Follow recipe above and mix into the dough 1½ cups broken pecans (150g), 2 cups candied cherries (400g), cut in halves, and 2 cups cut-up dates (350g). Place a pecan half on each cooky. Make these rich cookies smaller only 2 inches.
• Salted Peanut Cookies – These tempting peanut crunches are always a favourite both with children and grown-ups.
  • Follow recipe above except in place of the 3½ cups flour, stir in 2 cups sifted flour (220g), 2 cups rolled oats (170g), 1 cup WHEATIES (UK use crushed UPF free weetabix or wheat flakes)(38g), 1 cup coarsely chopped salted peanuts (without husks) (130g). Bake until brown, 12 to 14 min.
• Busy-Day Nut Drops – Easy budget-savers. One of our home testers calls these her “wash day” cookies.
  • Follow recipe above—and mix into the dough 1 cup cut-up nuts (130g).
• Bust-Day Coconut Drops
  • Follow recipe above and mix into the dough 1 cup moist shredded coconut (90g).

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).