Toffee Cookies – Mabel Platts
Date: February 15, 2006 | Discussion: 1 Comment
I found this recipe card, minus a large corner, inside The Boston Cooking School Cook Book. By Fannie Farmer, this edition has a copyright of 1927 with the date of December 18, 1941 written on the bookend and the signatures of Wendell H. Gordon, Natalie Jane Gordon, Brant Rock 1941 and Mercedes Prudence Budd Gordon. Perhaps a present for Wowie from Aunt Mercedes?
The Toffee Cookies card is in Wowie’s handwriting and goes as follows:
Cream 1 cup shortening with
1 cup brown sugar
Add 1 unbeaten egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift 2 cups flour with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Add to first mixture and blend.
Pat into 1/4 inch thickness on a well greased cookie sheet. Spread top with unbeaten egg white and sprinkle with 1/2 cup ground nuts.
Mark in squares with silver knife before baking at 275 degrees for 30 minutes.
Cool. Remove with spatula.
Since this is from Mabel, it must be good.
#5 | Martha shelnutt writes on June 16, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Mabel was our cook