With raisins and coffee.
This recipe, with nuts added, appeared in the November 22, 1935 edition of The Hammond (Indiana) Times:
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English Cookies
(If you like moist cookies these are truly delicious.) 2 cups brown sugar Also sift 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg in with flour. Drop from spoon on slightly greased cookie sheet. Mrs. Lloyd E. Bussert,
7006 Jackson Ave., Hammond. |
Mrs. Lloyd E. Bussert’s name was Anna, born Anna E. Morgenegg. Here’s the family in the 1940 census:
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From the box of G.Y. from Wichita, Kansas.
English Cookies
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup lard
2 eggs
1 cup cold coffee
1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in cold water
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups raisins
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups flour
- Cream butter, lard, and sugar. Add coffee and eggs and cream until fully incorporated.
- Mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix dry ingredients into wet mixture.
- Fold in raisins.
- Drop by teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 deg. for about 15 minutes or until done. (If using a tablespoon for larger cookies, use 400 deg. for about the same time.)