50 year Old Shepherd RECIPES   Venture into the kitchens of the past if you dare by trying these old fashioned recipes of a bygone generation of Shepherd homemakers.

 

 

RANCH HOUSE COOKIES    by Mrs. Amelia Troha - 1956

 

1 cup of brown sugar                              1 tsp. soda

1 cup white sugar                                    1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup shortening or 2 sticks of oleo        1 ˝ cups oatmeal, uncooked

2 eggs                                                      2 cups Rice Krispies

2 cups flour                                             1 pkg. coconut

                                                                1 cup or more pecans, chopped

 

   Cream together sugar, shortening; add eggs and beat thoroughly.  Add flour that has been sifted with baking soda.  Then add remaining ingredients.  Shape into small balls and bake.

 

From  the “Shepherd’s Recipe Roundup” book, compiled and sold by the Women’s Society of Christian Service of  the Shepherd Methodist Church in 1956.

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