A Forest Ranger's Cookbook - Cookies

from The Lookout Cookbook, 1938. U.S. Forest Service, Region One

COOKIES, ROLLS, AND SMALL CAKES

Tutti-Frutti Cooky Bars
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon soda

Cream butter and sugar, add rest of ingredients and mix well. Cover bottom of buttered pan with half of dough mixture, cover with tutti-frutti cooky filling. (See "Frostings, Icings and Fillings.") Put the rest of the dough over the top. Bake in medium slow oven about 25 minutes.

Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons melted bacon grease or other shortening

Mix well together.
1 tablespoon dry eggs (or 1 fresh egg)
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 3/4 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oatmeal

Stir well and drop off spoon on greased pan and bake until done, about 15 minutes.

Fruit Cookies
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup shortening (creamed)
2 eggs

Add to sugar and shortening mixture:
3 cups flour
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 level teaspoon soda

Sift with flour the soda, and baking powder, flavor, and add dry ingredients together with wet ingredients. Roll out very thin on floured board and cut in desired size. Prepare fruit filling and place a small amount of the filling on top of one cooky. Wet edges of bottom cooky and place another cookie on top of this. Bake in moderate oven until nicely browned.

Sugar Cookies
1/3 cup shortening
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Add milk to make a dough which does not stick to rolling pin.

Cream shortening, adding sugar gradually. Add eggs, vanilla and mix. Add the flour together with the salt and baking powder. Set aside for a short time, then roll out to about 1/8" thick on a floured board. (A can with the entire top removed makes a good cooky cutter.) Flour the can to prevent sticking. Bake in greased pan, brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in hot oven for 10 minutes.

Doughnuts
1 tablespoon butter or fat
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup milk flour

Beat the eggs until very light, add the sugar and when foamy add the melted butter or fat. Sift the baking powder, salt and nutmeg with one cup flour and stir into first mixture, alternating with the milk so as to keep the mixture smooth. Add just enough flour to make a soft dough which can be handled. Roll out 3/4 inch thick on a lightly floured board. A soft dough makes light, tender doughnuts when cooked. Fry in deep fat and drain on a dry pan. Fat should never smoke, as this produces harmful by-products. Roll the doughnuts in sugar before serving.