Add soda to boiling water and let stand until cool. Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, bran flakes, rolled oats and sugar. Cut in shortening; add water and soda. Roll outthin on a floured board. Bake in hot oven until golden brown. Bells Best #2 (Mississippi chapter)

Oven 400~. Grease 9x13x2 inch baking pan. Melt butter and chocolate. Stir in sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add remaining ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 400~ for 15 min. Let cool in pan. Cut into diamonds. Store in tin box between layers of wax paper.

Beat shortening till soft. Add sugar & cream till fluffy. Add water & mix. Add the rest of the ingredients in order, mixing well after each addition. Finish with the nuts & coconut. Form into rolls, wrap in waxed paper & chill for several hours in the fridge. Slice into rounds an 1/8 inch thick. […]

In large mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually stir in flour until well blended. Stir in macadamia nuts. Place dough on wax paper and shape into a roll two inches in diameter. Wrap in paper and foil and chill at least two hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 300 […]

Cream together 1 cup sugar and shortening. Add molasses and eggs. Mix well. Sift together dry ingredients and add in. Put 1/4 cup sugar in bowl. Make balls of dough, roll them in sugar. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 350 F 12 – 15 minutes. (baked longer, they are VERY hard)

1. Cover raisins with water and boil 15 minutes. 2. Cool. 3. Cream together shortning and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla and boiled raisins with 1/4 cup more water. Add dry ingredients to the batter a little at a time. 4. Drop on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 oven […]

Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter and grease two large cookie sheets. Melt butter and unsweetened chocolate Stir in 1 cup of chocolate chips. When chips are almost melted, remove mixture from the heat. Mix eggs, coffee crystals, vanilla and sugar until smooth. Stir into the chocolate mixture. Mix dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt) […]

Oven 325~. NOTE–Cookie dough must pass easily through a cookie press. It may be necessary to add from 1/4 to 1/2 cup more flour to adjust consistency. Cream all ingredients on mixer except flour. Work in flour by hand. TO MAKE POINSETTIAS: Reserve 1/2 cup dough to color green for leaves. Using red vegetable color, […]

Beat egg very light and add shortening, sugar, dates, cocoanut, and flavoring. Mix well. Add milk and flour which has been sifted with baking-powder and salt. Drop from teaspoon on greased tin. Bake in a moderately hot oven. Time in oven, 12 minutes. Temperature, 375 degrees.

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, molasses, milk, water, and mince- meat. Sift flour, measure, and sift with salt and baking powder. Add rolled oats. Combine with first mixture. Mix thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto well-oiled baking sheet. Bake in hot oven (410 F) 15- 20 minutes.