welcome friends today it's another
Sunday and we're going to do another one
of our post depression pre World War two
recipes from the my favorite recipe book
published by stainer Sun in 1938 and
today we're going to make something
called butterscotch cookies and I'm
pretty excited about this because it's
got a handwritten note in the margin
that says good so I have high hopes I'm
gonna start out with some butter and
we're just gonna cream that together to
get it softened
now this recipe kind of has directions
it says mix in the order given so next
in is brown sugar and it is a lot of
brown sugar though I guess these are
called butterscotch cookies and they
rely on that brown sugar for the flavor
next in our two eggs next in is some
vanilla
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and then cream of tartar and baking soda
okay so I'm gonna switch to a wooden
spoon to do the flour I don't know
tink Oh wrong with butter brown sugar
and I even like butter brown sugar and
raw eggs but maybe that's just me so I'm
put in the flour a little bit of time
there seems like a lot of flour for the
amount of butter and sugar that I have
but we'll see how it works so as you can
see I've switched to a larger bowl the
spoo not cutting it what we've got here
is is pretty stiff and I think it's
gonna be hard to get all of the flour
incorporated into this dough calls for
three and a half cups and I'd say I've
got about 3/4 of a cup still here that
hasn't been put into this dough at this
point so I'm just gonna keep kind of
kneading it a little bit mixing it and
seeing if I can add any more so I've got
about 3/4 of a cup of flour that I
haven't put in here and I'm not gonna
try to put it in because the dough seems
to be getting kind of dry and crumbly
and I don't think that's what it's
supposed to be the next instruction is
is kind of vague
it says pack and hard loaf and let stand
overnight and I don't know whether I
should pack it into a loaf pan or
whether I should make it into a roll
because there's a lot of cookies that
you make into a roll and then you slice
them off and that's kind of what this
idea is I know in 1938 there wouldn't
have been any sort of plastic wrap so
they probably would have packed it into
a loaf pan and just left it on the
counter overnight I'm gonna try to get
it into a log so that I can slice off a
nice round cookies see how that goes
okay so I have a fridge I'm going to use
it check back tomorrow
bake these off so next the instructions
just say to slice and bake so let's see
how that works out cookies butterscotch
cookies high hopes that good means that
they're good yes they look good they're
interesting the tops are interesting
aren't they yes well some of them cracks
open there mm-hmm yeah crispy crispy on
the bottom nice and sort of chewy in the
middle not sweet I mean I was expecting
there's a lot there's a lot of sugar in
there hmm I was expecting them to be
very sweet but I think that chewy
texture mm-hmm mm-hmm they're very
lovely cookies yeah I think that's gonna
go mm-hmm I'm fascinated uh sir I'm
fascinated by all the other things on
the page and it's the kind of cookie
that you can only cut up half of and
bake you can wrap the other part of the
log and stick it in freezer and then
bake them off as you need them so great
cookie thanks for stopping by so you can
soon
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