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Lady Bird Johnson’s Wheaties Coconut Cookies

 

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Wheaties-Coconut Cookies

Cook Time12 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Author: Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson

Ingredients

  • 1 cup mixed butter & other shortening
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 2 cup coconut
  • 2-2 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda sifted
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cup Wheaties

Instructions

  • Blend shortening, salt and sugars.
  • Mix in eggs.
  • Stir in coconut.
  • Sift together flour, soda, baking powder, and salt and add to mixture.
  • Blend in vanilla and Wheaties.
  • Roll into balls the size of walnuts.
  • Bake 12 minutes at 400°

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Czechoslovak Christmas Cookies

Czechoslovak christmas cookies
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Czechoslovak Christmas Cookies

Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Czechoslovak
Author: Mrs. Popper

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 4 oz fruit and peel mix
  • 1 cup raisins chopped
  • 1 cup walnuts chopped
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs beaten

Instructions

  • Melt butter, cool.
  • Combine fruit and nuts, over this sift flour and sugar.
  • Add cooled butter and eggs
  • Mix well
  • Bake at 350° for 30 minutes in well buttered 4" pan.
  • Cool and cut in squares

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Christmas Wreaths

Christmas Wreaths

  • 1 cup soft shortening
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs (separated)
  • 2 cups sifted flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups chopped nuts or cocoanut
  • ½ cup raspberry or strawberry jam

Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg yolks, flour, salt. Mix well. Shape 1-inch balls, drop into unbeaten egg whites, then in chopped nuts. Place 1-inch apart on a greased cookie sheet. Make a slight depression in center of each cookie. Bake 375° for 5 minutes. Then press center again. Bake 10 minutes longer. Cool slightly. Remove from sheet, fill center with jam. Makes 3 dozen.

Jackie Babins- Favorite Recipes: Tonawandas Grandmothers’ Club #93

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Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen

  • 8 cups sifted flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon cloves
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 ½ cups strained honey (1 lb)
  • 2 cups sifted brown sugar
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 ½ cups candied orange peel, shredded (6 oz)
  • 1 ½ cups candied citron, shredded (6 oz)
  • 2 cups almonds, blanched and shredded ( ¾ lb)

Sift flour, soda and spices together three times. Boil honey, sugar and water 5 minutes. Cool. Add nuts, eggs, fruit and flour mixture. Work into loaf and place in refrigerator. Let ripen 2 or 3 days. Roll on slightly floured board to ¼” thickness. Cut into strips, 1” x3”. Bake on oiled VIKO Aluminum Cooky sheets in moderate oven (350° F) 15 minutes.
When cool cover with Transparent Glaze or icing.
Lebkuchen should ripen in cake box at least one day before they are to be served. Makes 10 dozen Lebkuchen. To soften, put cloth wrung out of warm water in top of container holding cookies. Leave on for 24 hours.

Via VIKO Many Feature Cook Book

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