Best Farmer Cookies Recipes

OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC BUTTERSCOTCH ICEBOX COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together butter and brown sugar until light.
• Add egg and vanilla, and mix well.
• Stir together flour, salt, and baking powder and add to sugar-egg-butter mix, mixing well. Stir in nuts.
• Form dough into a 2-inch-diameter log and wrap in foil or waxed paper. Chill for 12 to 24 hours.
• Slice and bake on ungreased cookie sheets at 400 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes.

FANNIE FARMER SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• cream butter and sugar.
• beat in eggs, vanilla and milk.
• add salt, bp and flour.
• chill for at least an hour.
• roll out and cut.
• bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.

FARMER COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt shortening, pour over sugars. Mix well.
• Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
• Stir dry ingredients together and add to sugar mixture. Mix lightly.
• Add oatmeal, cereal, coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts and mix well.
• Drop by tablespoon on greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes.
• I use my cookie scoop and get 4 dozen yummy cookies!

CHOCOLATE COOKIES - FANNIE FARMER

Steps:

• Cream shortening, gradually adding the sugar, creaming well.
• Beat in the egg, chocolate, milk, vanilla and salt.
• Gently, but thoroughly, stir in the flour.
• Put through a cookie press or drop by level teaspoon fulls, 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes.

FANNIE FARMER PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES (HALF RECIPE)

Steps:

• "Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and grease some cookie sheets. In a mixing bowl, thoroughly cream the shortening, vanilla, and sugars. Add the eggs and beat well. Stir in the peanut butter. Mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda, and add to the peanut butter mixture, combining thoroughly.
• Form into tiny balls with the palm of your hands and place on the cookie sheets. Press each cooking twice with the back of a fork to make a crisscross design. Bake about 8-10 minutes or until firm.".

SWEDISH FARMER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter well.
• Gradually add sugar, then blend in corn syrup, mixing well.
• Add nuts.
• Blend flour and baking soda, then add to butter mixture.
• Roll dough into logs.
• Wrap in waxed paper and chill well.
• Slice thin (about 1/4 inch) with a sharp knife.
• Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375° for about 10 minutes.

FARMER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugars til light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and vanilla.
• Add flour, salt, and baking powder until combined.
• Mix in oatmeal, corn flakes and walnuts.