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Monster Cookies

Posted on December 10, 2023November 28, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Monster Cookies updated and adapted from Alison Parson’s Monster Cookies appearing in What’s Cooking in Our All-American City? II Junior Jam compiled by Rockingham Junior Woman’s Club, 1985

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Chocolate Buttermint Cookies

Posted on December 6, 2023November 24, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

This recipe caught my eye because I had never seen a recipe for cooking with buttermints before! I rarely see them outside of a few old-fashioned restaurants but at one point they were a baby shower and wedding staple. They are chalky pastel mint pillows that melt in your mouth. I had a real craving…

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Oatmeal Lace Cookies

Posted on August 27, 2023September 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

adapted and updated from Josephine Santa Maria’s Fat Mary’s Oatmeal Lace Cookies in Philadelphia Homestyle Cookbook published by Norwood-Fontbonne Academy Home and School Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1984

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butter crunch cookies

Butter Crunch Cookies

Posted on May 26, 2023September 21, 2023 by Rachel Rappaport

Adapted and updated from Joanna Baird’s Butter Crunch Cookies in Serving You: A Collection of Recipes from the Volunteers of Hospice of Baltimore and Howard County. 2007

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