This recipe appears in a Crisco advertisement that contrasts childhood memories of Grandmother’s cookie jar with claims of easier, quicker baking. The page connects the recipes to time-saving instructions and a free cookbook offer credited to Miss Olive Allen. Those claims belong to the historical advertiser, not Repastory.
A drop-cookie recipe from the Crisco advertisement “Grandmother’s Old Stone Cookie Jar,” in the January 1925 Good Housekeeping. Molasses, brown sugar, and ginger are paired with an advertised shortcut: no rolling or cutting.
Original
Grandmother’s GingerCOOKIES
Made the new easy way—no tiresome rolling or cutting. Crisco is always ready for instant use and is easy to cream with the brown sugar. Grease your pans with Crisco and drop the cookies far enough apart to keep them round. Crisco saves washing the pans between bakings, so you won’t mind using a lot of them.
All measurements level
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup molasses
½ cup Crisco
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup sour milk
4½ cups pastry flour
Cream Crisco, sugar and salt together. Add molasses and ginger, then egg. Dissolve soda in sour milk. Add, mix thoroughly. Last add flour. Drop teaspoonfuls of the batter on a Criscoed baking pan and bake in a medium oven (375° F.). Makes about 50 cookies.
The source page · Good Housekeeping, 1925-01. The page may contain material beyond this entry.
Public rights statementThis material was originally published in the United States in 1925 and is believed to be in the public domain in the United States. Source: Good Housekeeping, January 1925, vol. 80, no. 1, page n184, via Internet Archive. Repastory is not affiliated with or endorsed by Good Housekeeping or its current owner. Rights may vary outside the United States.
Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup sour milk
4 1/2 cup pastry flour
Directions
Cream the shortening, brown sugar, and salt together.
Add the molasses and ginger, then the beaten egg.
Dissolve the soda in the sour milk. Add to the mixture and mix thoroughly.
Add the flour last.
Drop teaspoonfuls of batter onto a baking pan greased with shortening, spacing them far enough apart to keep the cookies round.
Bake in a medium oven at 375°F.
Item type
recipe
Yield
Makes about 50 cookies.
Timing
Not stated
Temperature
a medium oven (375° F.)
Equipment
baking pan
Names & connections
Criscobrand · ingredient
Source context
publication context
Grandmother’s Old Stone Cookie Jar — advertisement introduction
Grandmother’s Old Stone Cookie Jar
One of the things you love to remember is your childhood visits to Grandmother’s old stone cookie jar.
I don’t believe you ever were disappointed, for although Grandmother had to stand and roll and cut cookies she always found time to do it.
Today we have an easier, quicker way to make cookies than Grandmother had. The cookies on this page call for no rolling and cutting. I know they will gladden the heart of any child and save you time.
Source evidence: Good Housekeeping, January 1925, IA leaf 184, heading and two-column introduction above the four cookie recipes; original advertising language, not Repastory claims.
related reference
The advertisement’s cookbook offer and advertiser
FREE! 200 Tested Recipes
Gathered from the whole wide world by Miss Olive Allen. To secure this cook book free simply send your name and address to Section H-1, Dept. of Home Economics, The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Source evidence: Good Housekeeping, January 1925, IA leaf 184, lower-right cookbook offer and bottom copyright line. Historical offer only; no present availability or rights grant asserted.
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