Melt In Your Mouth Cookies

There are sugar cookies and then there are sugar cookies.
This cookie is like making a Martini by showing the Gin bottle the Vermouth.
Only enough flour is used so that the sugar is formed into a cookie.

½ cup butter (or oleo)
1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
¾ cup sifted flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ cup chopped nuts (optional)

Mix well and drop a teaspoon onto cookie pan.
Bake at 400° F for 5 minutes.
These cookies become very flat when they are baked. Makes about 8 dozen cookies.

One could use a tablespoon for the measure, but then you could only eat one cookie without going into sugar shock.

Grandma Hop's Raisin Cookies

Back to cookies.
This is a spice/raisin cookie. The date on this recipe is August 1951.

1 cup butter (or oleo)
1½ cup white sugar
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
½ tsp ground cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
2 level tsp baking soda in ¼ cup hot water
3¼ cup flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup ground raisins

Mix well and drop a tablespoon onto cookie pan.
Bake at 400° F for 9 to 10 minutes.
Makes 6 to 7 dozen cookies.

You may wish to soak the raisins in hot water before grinding them.
My mom used a cast iron meat grinder to grind the raisins. I now use a similar attachment on my food processor.