{"id":39,"date":"2014-02-12T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayre-nc.info\/annsrecipes\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:48:10","slug":"ice-box-cookies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sayre-nc.info\/annsrecipes\/recipes\/desserts\/cookies\/ice-box-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Box Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is from my grandmother, Mrs. George Hollinshead of Milledgeville, Georgia.\u00a0 They really were ice box cookies &#8211; no refrigerators. My mother&#8217;s 1932 diary tells of the family getting a kerosene powered refrigerator that year.\u00a0 To modernize this recipe, you could start by calling them &#8220;Refrigerator cookies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these cookies are my grandmother&#8217;s recipe.\u00a0 They should be as thin as you can cut them and very crisp after cooking and cooling. But if you make them thicker and chewy, they are still good.\u00a0 And my sister Jean and I can testify that the raw cookie dough is tasty too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 C. butter ( 2 sticks )<\/li>\n<li>2 C. brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 C. chopped nuts ( pecans, of course )<\/li>\n<li>3 1\/2 C plain flour ( not self rising)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 t. salt<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 t. soda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cream butter and sugar.\u00a0 Add eggs, mix well.\u00a0 Sift salt and soda with flour.\u00a0 Mix into first part.\u00a0 Add nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Roll into long rolls.\u00a0 ( This part can be messy, as the dough is sticky.\u00a0 I usually divide the dough into 3 or 4 parts, and put each part on a big piece of wax paper, trying to shape it into a cylinder about 2 inches in diameter as I go.\u00a0 Then I can flour my fingers and pat it into a more uniform shape or just shape it through the wax paper.)<\/p>\n<p>Twist the ends of the wax paper shut.<\/p>\n<p>Put into refrigerator, or better yet, freeze. (The knife for slicing and also the wax paper doesn&#8217;t stick to the frozen dough.)<\/p>\n<p>When ready to bake, slice very thin and bake in moderate oven. ( 350 ).\u00a0 Use a slender non-serrated knife to slice them.\u00a0 How long to bake them will depend on how thick you sliced them.\u00a0 I try to slice mine about 1\/8&#8243; thick and they cook in 6.5 minutes.\u00a0 Grandmother probably didn&#8217;t have a thermostat on her oven when starting making these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is from my grandmother, Mrs. George Hollinshead of Milledgeville, Georgia.\u00a0 They really were ice box cookies &#8211; no refrigerators. My mother&#8217;s 1932 diary tells of the family getting a kerosene powered refrigerator that year.\u00a0 To modernize this recipe, you could start by calling them &#8220;Refrigerator cookies&#8221;. 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