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Christmas Spice Cookies

Christmas Spice Cookies
-- from The Settlement Cookbook, 1976

2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup syrup or honey
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 ounces citron, ground very fine
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
juice and rind of 1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons milk

Add sugar to syrup and cook until sugar is dissolved. Add butter, cool.  Add spices to flour. Mix all ingredients and add additional flour to handle, if necessary. Roll 1/8-inch thick and cut into desired shapes. Bake on greased baking sheets in moderate oven, 350 degrees F, 8 to 10 minutes.

Oatmeal Jam Jams with Fig Filling

I confess, I am partial to old flour advertising cookbooks with recipes for pies and cakes, scones and rusks, pancakes and waffles, doughnuts and crullers, cookies and jam-jams. I am forever learning new names for treats of all kinds. Watch this blog for more recipes from this cookbook, including Fadge, Parkin and Plunkets.

Reprinted exactly as given, is a recipe from an 1913 Five Roses Flour cookbook -- you will have to decide how long to bake and what you might use for "dripping".

OATMEAL JAM JAMS (eggless with Fig Filling)

2 cups Five Roses flour
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup dripping
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon soda
sour milk

Rub all ingredients together with the exception of the soda, which should be dissolved in enough sour milk to hold other ingredients together. Roll thin,. Have ready 1 pound of figs cooked soft with 1 cup sugar and a little water. Cut cakes into shapes and put a spoonful of figs on the top then put another cake on and press edges firmly together and bake in a hot oven. These are delicious. Filling may be altered to suit taste. -- 1913 Five Roses Cook Book