Banker's Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have dubbed these banker's cookies as I believe that Memère acquired the recipe during her days working as a bank teller. I love her use of a deposit slip here. She often spoke fondly of her co-workers & their love of her confections.

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Ingredients for Memère's "Banker's Chocolate Chip Cookies": Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Sugar, Butter, Shortening, Vanilla, Water, Eggs, Nuts and Chocolate Chips.
For a printable PDF copy of this recipe right mouse click HERE.

Magic Cookie Bar

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Ingredients for Magic Cookie Bar: Butter, Graham Cracker Crumbs, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bits, Condensed Milk, Coconut, and Chopped Nuts.

For a PDF printable copy of this recipe right mouse click HERE.

Gingerbread Men

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Ingredient for Memere's Gingerbread Men: Butter, Sugar, Eggs, FLour, Ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Baking Soda and Cream.

For a printabel PDF version of this recipe right mouse click HERE.

Lucarelli's Pignoli Cookies

This is another clipping from Memere's favorite newspaper! Memere must have thought these were special, she took the time to staple the picture to the recipe. :-)
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Ingredients for Lucarelli's Pignoli Cookies: Almond Paste, Sugar, Egg Whites, Orange Extract & Pignoli (pine) nuts.

Right mouse click on the SunSentinel Logo to naviagate to a great Butternut squash soup recipe & other great recipes! YUM!

Christmas Sugar Cookies

This sugar cookie recipe was clipped from Memere's local newspaper. The Sugar cookies were featured almost yearly on Memere's cookie & candy tray list. Check out the link to the SunSentinel for more great recipe ideas!

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Ingredients for the Christmas Sugar Cookies recipe: Butter, Sugar, Egg, Heavy Cream, Vanilla, Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, Confectioners Sugar & Food Coloring.

Right mouse click on the SunSentinel Logo above to navigate to their great recipes!

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Truffle Cookies

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Truffle Cookies Ingredients: Peanut Butter Morsels, Semi Sweet Chocolate Morsels, Confectioner's Sugar, Finely Chopped Peanuts, Flour, Butter & Vanilla

Toffee Logs (Cookies)

Toffee Logs Ingredients: Flour, Light Brown Sugar, Butter, Maple Extract, Egg, Heath Bar- Candy Bars & Semi Sweet Chocolate Squares.

Strawberry Pecan Twists

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Ingredients for Strawberry Pecan Twists: Pecans, Strawberry Preserves, Salt, Eggs, Pie Crust Mix & Sugar.

The reference to pie crust mix in the recipe is to one similar to the Jiffy Mix pictured below. Find the brand that is available in your favorite super market. RIGHT MOUSE CLICK on the box below to navigate to the Jiffy Mix website. They have free recipes & ideas for using their product.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Memère wrote this recipe down on a scrap pad & then later decided to adjust the ingredients. The second copy of the recipe is supposed to help clarify her adjustments. :-)





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Ingredients for Peanut Butter Cookies: Shortening or Margarine, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Vanilla, Eggs, Peanut Butter Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder & Salt.





In days gone by, if you were using an old recipe, the reference to salt always meant table salt. Today there are many types of salt to choose from. If you RIGHT MOUSE CLICK on Morton Salt Girl below you can navigate to the Morton Salt website. They have some interesting facts about the history of salt & information on the salt choices available today.

Lemon Sandwich Bites

Choose Real Lemons or ReaLemon either way these little cookies are a year round favorite!

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Ingredients for Lemon Sandwich Bites: Flour, Sugar, Baking Soda, Butter, Vanilla, Confectioners Sugar, Lemon Juice & Lemon Peel.

Creamy Cashew Cookies

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Ingredients For Creamy Cashew Cookies: Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Butter, Brown Sugar, Eggs, Vanilla, Sour Cream, Cashews & Heavy Cream.

This is the second recipe in a week featuring sour cream. So here is a link to Breakstone's Sour Cream, products& recipes.

Cookie Candies

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Ingredients for Cookie Candies: Butter, Sugar, Vanilla, Flour, Salt, Rolled Oats, Chocolate Chips, Coconut, Chopped Nuts, Chocolate Shots & Sprinkles.

Did you know that Durkee not only produces fine herbs & seasonings, they also produce baking AND Dec-A-Cake products?

Right Mouse click on the photo below to navigate to their website for more recipes .

Chocolate Orange Delights

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Ingredients for Chocolate Orange Delights: Butter, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Eggs, Unsweetened Chocolate, Sour Cream, Grated Orange Rind, Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Nuts, Semisweet Chocolate Chips & Orange Extract.

I saw this vintage advertisement for Betty Crocker & Gold Medal Flour & could not resist including it here. Enjoy!

If you would like to see more Gold Medal Flour recipes Right mouse click on the logo below.

Chocolate Almond Bites

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Ingredients For Chocolate Almond Bites: Nestle's Semi-Sweet Baking Bar, Eggs, Salt, Brown Sugar, Vanilla & Almonds.

Because Memere specified Nestle's Chocolate for this recipe I thought it would be fun to include a couple of interesting Nestle links.

Right mouse click on the Morsels bag to find Nestle's ORIGINAL Toll House Cookie Recipe, and some printable coupons.

Right mouse click on the Summer Snowballs photo to find an interesting Word Press Blog featuring Nestle Products and Recipes.

Finally these adorable Beetle Bug Cup Cakes and more chocolate recipes can be found with a right mouse click on the beetles!

Have fun with all these great chocolate links!

Cherry Crowns Cookies

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Ingredients For Cherry Crowns Cookies: Butter, Cream Cheese, Sugar, Egg, Almond Extract, Flour, Almonds & Candied Cherries.

Please note that the recipe calls for candied cherries; not maraschino cherries. Right mouse click the photo above to link to a french company named Les Fleurons d'Apt. They process many types of candied fruits & share their history and how candied fruits are made.

Chocolate Chewies With Pecans

Click on the CUTE Cookies Word & View Over 100 Holiday Cookie Links. Right Mouse Click the Picture for a Pop Up Menu of Choices.

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Ingredients For Chocolate Chewies With Pecans: Instant Coffee, Hot Water, Egg Whites, Vanilla, Confectioners Sugar, Powdered Cocoa, Flour, Salt & Pecans.

Butter Almond Classic Cookies

This is a recipe that Memere had cut from a magazine advertisement. These are simple yet GREAT tasting!

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Ingredients For Butter Almond Classic Cookies: I can't Believe It's Not Butter Spread, Confectioners Sugar, Flour, Almonds & Almond Extract.

Click on the yellow container & you will be directed to:

icantbelieveitsnotbutterdotcom

They have lots more great recipes like the one that Memere saved.

Italian Anice Or Lemon Drop Cookies

Memere first learned how to make these soft & delicious cookies in 1971. I Saw the photo below on a fellow blogger's spot & the cookies look exactly like those that the older Italian ladies' taught Memere to make. The Italian ladies produced hundreds of these gems in a cramped 3rd floor kitchen preparing for a wedding. There were trays of cookies on every level surface available. I can still smell the fresh ingredients & hear the clattering of dishes. WHAT A SIGHT! Everyone was so busy making cookies no one thought of taking pictures.

Click on the photo above to go to Amanda's Blog for a similar recipe.

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Ingredients For Italian Anice Or Lemon Drop Cookies: Eggs, Sugar, Flour, Baking Powder, Spry, Crisco, Flavoring.

Chocolate Nut Cookies

This is the last item on Memere's 1995 Master List for Holiday & Christmas gift giving. There are many more "Goodies" in her Recipe box! They will be featured next. Look for them soon...

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Ingredients For Chocolate Nut Cookies: Shortening, Eggs, Sugar, Un-Sweetened Chocolate Squares, Flower, Baking Powder, Walnut Halves.

Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies

Throughout the growing years in Memere's house, when the word "BUTTER" was used, it was synonymous with "Land O'Lakes" brand butter. I don't ever remember seeing any other brand of butter in her home. So, when Memere writes "butter" in a recipe, you know she means "Land O'Lakes". For more recipes using "Land O'Lakes" butter Click on the image below.

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Ingredients For Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies: Butter, Brown Sugar, Egg, Vanilla, Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Half & Half, Confectioner's sugar.