This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
One cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 3 eggs, ½ cup sour cream. 1 cup chopped raisins, 1½ cups chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon vanilla. ½. teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda. Flour to mix soft dough. - Jennie Baker.
One cup butter, 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon milk, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, and flavoring to taste. Cream the butter and sugar, add the milk and eggs beaten light. Then add the flour and enough more to roll out if necessary. Roll a little at a time and cut out. Bake in quick oven. - Mrs. M. A. Fuller.
Three eggs, 1 cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 cup chopped raisins and a little citron. - Mrs. Harry Raney.
One pound butter. 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1 cupful of powdered coriander seed, some mixed spices. Mix in a stiff dough and roll out thin. Bake, place in an earthen jar, where they will keep 6 months.
- Mrs. J. R. Eldred.
Half pound of butter, 1 pint of cream, enough flour for a dough which can easily be worked by the hands. Cream the butter, then add the cream, then the flour. Put in a cool place over night. Roll out thin and form in figures "8's" about 2 or 3 inches long. Then roll through sugar and bake in an ungreased pan. - Mrs. Katz.
One cup butter. 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon thick sweet cream, 1 pound currants, washed and thoroughly dried, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, flavor. Add flour for soft dough. - Mrs. T. F. Heth.
Four teacups of oatmeal, 3 teacups of flour, 2 teacups of sugar, 2 teacups of seeded raisins, 2-3 teacup of butter, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of soda in ½ cup of water, 3 eggs, and a pinch of salt. - Mrs. W. W. Heth.
Two cups brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup raisins chopped, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves,¼ cup warm water, flour to mix soft. Sprinkle sugar on top and bake. - Mrs. I. D. Roach.
One cup of sugar. 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup of shortening, yolks of 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of ginger, 1 teaspoonful of soda. - Mrs. W. W. Bentley.
One egg, 1½ cups sugar, 1 cup of lard, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, a little salt, a little soda, 1 cup sweet milk, flour to mix into a dough. Use any flavor desired.
P. S. A little salt. I use about ½ teaspoon and about ¼ teaspoon of soda. You use this because the lard has no salt.
- Mrs. Altena Wolgamot.
Two eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspoon of soda in ½ cup sweet milk, spice or vanilla and flour to roll thin. To be successful, take small amount of dough at one time and roll until you can see the board through the dough. The soda prevents the cookie from wrinkling as it bakes.
- Mrs. E. Vehslage Rice.
Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 eggs not beaten, 4 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Chopped nuts may be added if desired. - Mrs. Harry Raney.
Three-fourths cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup chopped nuts, 2 cups oatmeal, 2 eggs not beaten, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon salt, ¾ teaspoon soda in 2 cups flour. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, cinnamon, salt and rolled oats. Stir well. Add raisins, nuts and flour. Stir well and drop in greased pans. Bake 20 minutes. .
- Mrs. Percy Jackson.
Three-fourths cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs (not beaten), 1 teaspoon cinnamon, salt, 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup chopped raisins, ¾ teaspoon of soda stirred into 2 cups of flour. Take small lumps in fingers and put in pan.
- Mrs. W. R. Powell.
 
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