1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 each egg
2 tbsp whipping cream
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 decorations: colored sugar,
1 raisins, chocolate
1 sprinkles, chocolate chips
Directions
Preparation time: 45 minutes Chilling time: Several hours Baking
time: 7 minutes
1. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and cream well. Blend in the
egg, cream, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Gradually
add flour and mix well. Chill dough until firm, several hours (it is
hard to roll out otherwise).
2. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out dough on a floured board to
about 1/8- inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a flour-dipped
cookie cutter. Place on ungreased or lightly greased cookie sheet.
3. Decorate with colored sugar and chocolate sprinkles and use
raisins or chocolate chips for the eyes of the animals. Bake for 5-7
minutes or until a little brown. Cool on racks. Don't forget to cut
the little holes if you wish to hang on the tree.
Note: Dough will keep several days or a week in the refrigerator if
you don't get around to cutting right away. I store the cookies in
tightly covered tins and they are very good keepers if the children
don't find them.
Winner Beverly Bergstrom of Hinsdale recounts making rolled animal
cookies: "We called them animal cookies although there were many
cutters that were not animals. We would cut small pieces of paper
drinking straws and insert them in the top of each cookie and then
bake them. The little piece of straw was removed just as the cookies
came from the oven, leaving a perfect little hole to put a colored
string through so the cookie could be hung on our huge Christmas tree.
"My sister and I would always make sure lots of the cookies were
hung around the back of the tree. The tree was in the corner of the
living room leaving a space behind, where we could crawl in. A
favorite pastime during the holiday season was to lie on the floor
behind the tree and using no hands, take tasty bites of the cookies,
leaving behind the empty strings decorating the tree. Grandma would
always pretend anger when she 'discovered' the empty strings and no
cookie. It was a good game." from the Chicago Tribune annual Food
Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986
Servings: 48 servings
1986 Winner: Rolled Animal Cookies Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
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The History of Recipes
Food historians have proved the existence of recipes way back into distant history, in truth as far back into history as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. Having said that, in the main part, these ancient records were just very basic hieroglyphic recipes for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe found, according to academics is a collection of clay tablets in the Sumerian language which describe the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel blissful. Progressing into The time of the romans 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a number of documents which described recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he tells us how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and afters, known in latin as `Gustatio, Primae Mensae and Secundae Mensae`. Aspicius recounts how the Roman chefs used a wide range of spices, including many that are still in use today like bay, rue and dill. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times there were a couple of interesting cookery books dating from the 14th Century - a cookery book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these are unconnected to the curry that is served today, but rather accounts of the types of meals prepared by the chefs of the rich people of that period. In the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought back many new spices and herbs from the East, such as coriander, parsley, and basil. These new foods and spices prompted an eruption in manuscripts on food, the majority of which still exist in private cookery archives. The introduction of television brings us celebrity chefs and the accompanying recipe books. And that pretty much brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing us all to access thousands of recipes just like those on this web site. |
We hope you enjoy this 1986 Winner_ Rolled Animal Cookies recipe.
