I had been adding recipes for a while to a new cookbook so I could find them when I wanted to cook them. In the electronic age, a digital version seems to make more sense, since I can add, amend, advise, adjust, delete, and reconsider as often as I want to and you can access them if and when you please. I've included the recipes from both my original cookbook which many of you have, and additional accumulated recipes that never got published. This isn’t the latest thing or nouvelle cuisine. These recipes are comfort food, good memories, treasured family recipes, and occasional treats as well as many healthier recipes I've grown to like in recent years. I encourage you to add comments, pictures, and favorite recipes to make this a real family cooking spot. It's the next best thing to sharing a meal.






Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Fork Cookies

1 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. lemon extract
2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. ground ginger
3 1/2 cups flour

Combine butter and sugar.  Add beaten eggs and flavorings.  Add dry ingredients to flour and then mix well with other ingredients.  Roll into a log and chill.  Cut off individual cookies and place on cookie sheet.  Press fork over top and then again at right angles to make a cross.  Bake at 375 degrees until lightly brown.

This is my Grandma Martin's recipe.  They were the first cookies my Aunt Opal ever made when she was a young girl learning to cook.  I remember eating these cookies at Grandma's when I was a little girl.
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