Christmas Recipes 3

CHEESE COOKIES
1 package cream cheese 2 cups sifted flour
1/2 pound butter 1 1/2 teaspoons baking
1 cup granulated sugar powder
1/8 teaspoon salt

Cream the cheese and butter together. Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt. Mix well together. Roll very thin on a lightly floured board. Cut and bake in a low oven (275° F.) twelve to fifteen minutes. This makes five dozen or more cookies.

VANILLA WAFERS
1/2 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten
1 cup sifted flour

Cream the butter and sugar, add the vanilla, beat in the egg and gradually add the flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a moderate over (350° F.) ten to twelve minutes. This makes thirty or more wafers.

KISSES
1 egg white 1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Beat the egg white very stiff, add the sugar gradually, then the vanilla. Bake on brown paper in a low oven (275° F.). This makes twenty-five kisses.

ICE BOX COOKIES
1/2 pound butter 1 egg, beaten
2 cups granulated sugar 3 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter and sugar together, add the vanilla then to the beaten egg. Gradually add the flour until stiff enough to form into three rolls. Put these in the refrig­erator overnight. Slice thin and bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) ten to fifteen minutes. Five dozen or more cookies.

ICE BOX COOKIES (Brown)
1/2 pound butter 1 egg, beaten
1 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup white sugar 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 1/2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon

Cream the butter with the two kinds of sugar. Add the beaten egg and vanilla, then the flour sifted with the cin­namon. Mix and form into three rolls. Chill these in the refrigerator overnight. Slice thin and bake in a moderate oven (325° F.) ten to eighteen minutes. This makes five dozen or more cookies.
 

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