COOKIES! from 1958 (part 1: through pg 35)

 Here's another prize from The Bat's collection of cookbooks (also probably purchased at auction over the years): 1958's Good Housekeeping's Book of Cookies.

Little paperback booklets like this are still sold as impulse items at grocery stores and supermarkets nationwide, and quickly go out of print as the next food fashion rises, which makes them collectible, to many people. Odds are, if you have one of them, you have at least a few dozen (like The Bat), and you may have used a single recipe from one of them more than once. If you scroll through my own posts below, you may find a recipe for a no-bake cookie/fudge, derived from a Pillsbury Bake-Off book published about the time I was born. I think she may have tried one other recipe from that booklet, once...

At any rate, I encourage you to seek out your own copy of any and all of the cookbooks I share, for the sheer pleasure of ownership. In the meantime, if you like what you see, please share. 

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Title, copyright page

Contents, Acknowledgments, Introduction  (part 1)

pp 4, 5: Helpful Tips;
COOKIES TO MOLD
French Tuiles;
Swedish Nut Crescents

pp 6, 7: COOKIES TO MOLD
Nut Butter Balls (all sorts);
Molasses Lace Roll-Ups;
Brazil-Nit Sticks;
Tea Dainties

pp 8, 9: COOKIES TO MOLD
Chewy Chews;
Cinnamon Disks;
Hang-Yen-Bang;
Peanut-Butter Fingers;
Springerle;
Coconut-Jam Fills

pp 10, 11: COOKIES TO MOLD
Chip Balls; Walnut Part Puffs;
Swedish Jelly Cookies;
Coconut Thinsies;
Walnut Nuggets; English Teacakes;
Brazil-Nut Macaroons

pp 12, 13: COOKIES TO MOLD
Brandy Snaps;
Chocolate-Frosted Leaves; 
Peanut Crunch Cookies; 
Crinkles; Pralines;
Molasses Crispies

pp 14, 15: COOKIES TO MOLD
Filbert Drops; Chocolate Dips;
Snickerdoodles;
FILLED COOKIES
Rich Filled Cookies;
Crispy Filled Cookies

pp 16, 17: FILLED COOKIES
Mincemeat Cookie Tarts;
Empanadas; Ragalach

pp 18, 19: FILLED COOKIES
THE LUSCIOUS FILLINGS:
Pineapple Filling; Prune Filling;
Date Filling; Raisin Filling;
Mincemeat Filling; Apple Filling;
Cranberry-Minceameat Filling;
Quick Fillings;
DROP AND BAKE
Shrewsbury Drops;
Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies;
Brown-Edge Cookies

pp 20, 21: color picture, no recipes

pp 22, 23: DROP AND BAKE
Southern Sour-Cream Jumbles;
Sponge Drops;
Soft Molasses Cookies;
5 Steps to Better Drop Cookies

pp 24, 25: DROP AND BAKE
Walnut Clusters;
Applesauce Cookies;
Susan's Double Chocolate-Walnut Drops

pp 26, 26: DROP AND BAKE
Martas; Israeli Honey Cookies;
French Almond Meringues;
Brazil Mincemeat Cookies;
Chocolate-Banana Drops;
Brazil-Nut Spice Mounds

pp 28, 29: DROP AND BAKE
Chocolate Macaroons;
Date Coconut Macaroons;
Almond Wine Biscuits;
Real Orange Cookies;
Lacy Raisin Wafers;
Lollipop Cookies

pp 30, 31: REFRIGERATOR COOKIES
Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies;
Cocoa Mint-Wiches

pp 32, 33: REFRIGERATOR COOKIES
Refrigerator Gingersnaps;
Party Pin Wheels;
Fudge Slices; Dutch Cookies;
Oatmeal Refrigerator Cookies;
Party Cookies

CENTERFOLD

OOOoo-la-la!
I like that they made the cookies look the way any amateur baker might to them, so as to not intimidate the rookie in the kitchen. There's a time for high art in the kitchen, and this ain't it.




To be continued here…