Cookie Recipes

Washboards

Washboards are wonderful old-fashioned cookies.

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Yield: about 4 dozen

Ingredients

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted before measuring
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup moist coconut

Instructions

  1. Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Cream shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla extract and coconut. Add sifted dry ingredients to creamed shortening mixture.
  2. Chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.
  3. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
  4. Shape into 1 inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheet; flatten with fingers into 2 1/2 x 1 inch rectangles. Press lengthwise with tines of fork. If fork sticks to dough, dip fork in flour before pressing on cookie dough.
  5. Bake at for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
  6. Remove from pan immediately after baking.
  7. Let cool for 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.


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