Name: Go-to-School Cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup brown sugar; ½ cup Crisco shortening; 2 squares chocolate, melted; 1 egg, slightly beaten; ½ cup milk; 1½ cups flour; ¼ tsp. baking soda; ½ tsp. salt; ½ tsp. baking powder; ¼ cup chopped nutmeats; ½ tsp. vanilla; ¼ cup Crisco shortening; 2 cups confectioners' sugar; 4 Tbsp. hot water, plus 1 Tbsp. more; ¼ tsp. salt; ½ tsp. vanilla; 1 square chocolate, melted; nutmeats, for topping

Method

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Step 1: Mix the sugar with the Crisco.
Step 2: Add the melted chocolate, egg and milk.
Step 3: Stir in the sifted dry ingredients, then the nutmeats and vanilla.
Step 4: Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
Step 5: Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F for 12–15 minutes.
Step 6: Icing: Beat the confectioners' sugar into the Crisco alternately with 4 Tbsp. hot water. Add the salt and vanilla.
Step 7: Move 1/3 of the icing to a separate bowl and add the melted chocolate and 1 Tbsp. hot water.
Step 8: Spread the cookies with the white icing. Put a dab of chocolate icing in the center of each and top with a nutmeat.

What we changed or couldn’t read (1)

"Squares" of chocolate means 1-oz. squares of unsweetened baking chocolate.

Go-to-School Cookies

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