Old-Fashioned Cookie Recipes II: Hermits, Lady Fingers, Marguerites & More

Housewives and bakers of earlier generations cooked up a variety of cookies - some now forgotten. There were hermits, lady fingers, marguerites, jumbles, and wafers to name a few. In this second collection of antique cookie recipes, you’ll find an additional 400 plus old-fashioned cookie receipts. Also scattered throughout the collection are old-fashioned ads, pictures, and advice from the original cookbooks. Whip up a batch of spiced lemon and citron wafers or rose scented bachelor buttons and take a tasty trip back in time.

1841 Tory Wafers
1847 Sherry & Vanilla Jumbles
1881 Black Pepper & Ginger Snaps
1888 Iced Bachelor’s Buttons
1890 Spiced Hermits with Raisins & Citron
1893 Poppy Seed Cookies
1899 Frosted Madelaines
1904 Spiced Pepper Nuts with Citron
1905 Orange Iced Ebony Fingers
1909 Southern Rose & Almond Macaroons
1910 Vanilla Kisses with Zabajone Filling
1913 Almond & Caraway Shortbread
1914 Brown Sugar Cookies with Walnuts
1915 Lemon Butter Sand Tarts
1916 Boiled Molasses Chips
1917 Fig Marguerites
1918 Lemon & Cinnamon Prune Meringues with Nuts
1921 Lemon & Mace Imitation Honey Cookies
1922 Lace Curtain Cookies