chocolate pressed cookies (1950)

Name: Chocolate Pressed Cookies (1950)
Ingredients: 3/4 cup(s) butter; 1 cup(s) granulated sugar; 1 - egg , well beaten; 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla flavoring; 2 - squares chocolate , melted; 2 tablespoon(s) milk; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt; 2 1/4 cup(s) sifted enriched flour

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Karla Everett

Greenacres, WA

Updated on Nov 15, 2011

Here is another pressed cookie recipe that my Grandma Rose clipped from the news papers and magazines from 1934 - 1950's and this is one of them recipes dated Dec. 1950 Posted by a lady named : Mrs. Leroy Sillars, Wausau, Wis.

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Ingredients

3/4 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 - egg , well beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
2 - squares chocolate , melted
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups sifted enriched flour

How To Make chocolate pressed cookies (1950)

Step 1

Cream butter and the sugar. Add egg. Beat until light and fluffy. Add flavoring *chocolate and milk. Blend thoroughly.

Step 2

Sift together the dry ingredients and gradually add to the shortening mixture , blend thoroughly.
Step 3

Fill cookie press. For cookie press the bar plate forms an unusually attractive chocolate cookie. Form dough on unoiled cookie sheet.
Step 4

BAKE in a moderate oven 375° for 8-10 minutes. yields: 7 dozen assorted cookies.
Step 5

*cocoa powder may be used in place of chocolate by substituting 3 Tablespoons cocoa and 1 Tablespoon shortening for each square of chocolate required.
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