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Some of Aunt Julia's Favorite Recipes
Aunt Julia Graumann made these cookies every Christmas. She got the recipe from a women’s magazine.
Cream together: 1 cup butter (room temperature) 1/2 lb. cream cheese (room temperature)
Sift together the following ingredients: 2 cups flour 1/4 tsp salt.
Blend the dry and moist ingredients and work together until they make a malleable ball. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.
Roll to 1/8 in. on board sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. A marble rolling pin works best.
Cut into 1 in. x 3 in. strips and roll around candied fruits or nuts. We have used cherries, pineapple, dates and almonds.
Space generously on ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 375º for about 10 minutes or until the bottom of the cookies are barely light brown. The dough will puff up nicely in the oven.
Cake: Beat 1 lb. cream cheese until fluffy. Then add: 3 eggs 2/3 cup sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp almond extract and beat until thick and lemon-colored. Pour into 9’’ buttered glass dish. Bake at 350 º for 25 min. Let cool and shrink.
Topping: Mix the following ingredients: 1/2 pint (1 cup) of sour cream 1 1/2 tbs. sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. vanilla.
Spread on cooled cake. Bake at 350 º for 10 min.
Aunt Julia Graumann’s Spritz Cookies
1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup butter (room temperature) 1/2 tsp each cinnamon and nutmeg 3/4 cup sugar 2 1/2 cup flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/8 tsp salt 1 egg
Cream butter. Add sugar gradually. Add egg.
Sift dry ingredients three times. Add with flavoring to butter
Press onto sheet.
Aunt Julia’s mother used to roll and cut these.
Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies Aunt Julia 400º 10-12 min.
1/2 cup butter 1 egg 1 tblsp. hot water 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup smooth, not crunchy peanut butter 1 1/2 cup sifted flour 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. baking soda
Cream butter, then sugar, then egg. Add peanut butter. Add soda to hot water and cool slightly. Add half flour, then liquid then rest of flour. Force through cookie press.
Chocolate Fancies Aunt Julia 400º 10-12 minutes
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tblsp milk 2 cups flour 2 oz. melted chocolate
Cream butter, add sugar gradually. Add unbeaten egg, then milk and chocolate. Sift and measure flour. Add. Force through cooky press and bake.
Cranberry Fruit Bread Aunt Julia
9”x5”x3” loaf pan, greased 50-60 min in 350º
2 cups sifted flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 2 tblsp melted shortening 1tsp salt 1well beaten egg 1/2 cup chopped nuts 1 very small mashed banana 1 1/2 cup halved cranberries juice and rind of 1 orange
Sift together dry ingredients. Add water to orange juice to make 3/4 cup. Combine juice, rind and shortening. Sir in egg. Pour into dry ingredients, mixing just enough to dampen. Add banana, fold in berries and nuts. In pan make corners and sides higher than center. |