Grandma's Cookies
Source of Recipe
thriftyfun.com
List of Ingredients
Ingredients:
* 4 eggs
* 2 cups butter
* 2 cups brown sugar
* 12 Tbsp. white Karo or other white syrup
* 3 tsp. baking soda
* 1/4 tsp Salt
* 4+ cups flour, as needed *After the first 3 cups (see directions), you should add flour gradually until you've made a nice dough that can be rolled out and cut nicely.
* Strawberry Preserves
Recipe
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at the time, beating well after each addition. Add syrup and beat in. Mix 3 cups all-purpose flour with baking soda and salt, then add gradually to butter and sugar mixture stirring in with a big wooden spoon. Add more flour as needed until you have the dough just right for rolling out. Don't make it too stiff as you will be refrigerating it for a few hours to allow dough to handle better when rolling. Refrigerate for 2 or more hours.
Roll dough out to about 1/4 inch thick and cut with a round biscuit cutter or floured glass. Place on lightly greased cookie sheets and bake in preheated 400 degree F oven for 10-12 minutes.
Remove cookies to wire rack, and quickly put a small teaspoon of strawberry preserves on bottom of one cookie, and covering it with another cookie while all are still warm. This makes it a sandwich cookie.
Place finished sandwich cookies under towel so they will soften and become almost cake-like as they absorb the preserves. When totally cool, store them either in the refrigerator or in a tin cookie box with tight-fitting lid with waxed paper between layers and a padlock on the lid. :-)
They will last as long as the house is empty. Once a person tastes these cookies, they may stay home forever as they cannot stop eating the cookies until they are all gone.
Julia's Variations: We have tried making these cookies using all sorts of preserves and once we made an entire batch using Marshmallow Fluff as the "sandwich filling". No matter what we did, they soon disappeared, They are simply delicious served with a tall glass of cold milk, buttermilk, or iced-tea. Wonderful snack with morning coffee or hot tea or hot chocolate. Lunchboxes were made for this type of treat.
I've known children to do chores without being coaxed when there were Grandmother's Cookies in the house.
Servings: 4 doz
Time: 25 Minutes Preparation Time
12 Minutes Cooking Time
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