Anise Drops - Xmas   Recipe Source: Anita Feick   

  • 1½ lbs powdered sugar

ADD:  

  • 8   eggs

BEAT for 1 hour.

ADD:  

  • 2 tbsp anise seeds  
  • 1 tbsp baking powder  
  • 4 cups flour

DROP in pans and let stand overnight.

 Anise Seed Cookies                           Recipe Source: Mrs. J.C. Feick

  • 1½ cups sugar  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • 2   eggs  
  • ½ cup cold water  
  • 2 tbsp baking powder  
  • 3 cups flour  
  • 2 tbsp anise seed
  1. Mix - chill - roll - cut into rounds.
  2. Sprinkle with sugar.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees until light brown around edges.  

 Buckeyes                                    Recipe Source: Kim Baer

  • 1 lb soft butter  
  • 3 lbs powdered sugar  
  • 2 lbs peanut butter (4½ cups)  
  • 2 12-oz packages chocolate chips  
  • 1 block paraffin
  1. Mix butter, powdered sugar, and peanut butter.
  2. Form into balls and chill.
  3. Melt chocolate and paraffin separately then mix together.
  4. Dip balls. (Use Pam on trays or foil so you can get them off.)  

  Butterscotch Cookies                      Recipe Source: Great Grandma Gundlach  

  • 4 cups brown sugar  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • 4   eggs  
  • 7 cups flour  
  • 1 tsp baking soda  
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar
  • salt
  1. Mix together and form into rolls at night.
  2. Chill overnight.
  3. Slice and bake at 350 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes in the morning.
  4.  Makes dozens.
  5. Nuts of any variety may be added.    

Chocolate-Square Oatmeal Cookies                      Recipe Source: Rose Gundlach  

BEAT:  

  • ½ cup brown sugar  
  • ½ cup white sugar  
  • ½ cup butter  
  • 1   egg  
  • ½ tsp vanilla

ADD:  

  • 3/4 cup flour  
  • ½ tsp baking soda  
  • ½ tsp salt

STIR IN:  

  • 1½ cups oatmeal  
  • ¼ cup nuts

Shape dough into rolls and chill.

Slice and bake 10 to 12 minutes at 375.

Immediately place square of milk chocolate bar on each cookie - when soft, press pecan half into chocolate.    

Date Nut Fingers                                              Recipe Source: Anita Feick  

  • 2   eggs  
  • ½ cup sugar  
  • ½ tsp vanilla  
  • ½ cup flour  
  • ½ tsp baking powder  
  • ½ tsp salt  
  • 1 cup walnuts  
  • 8 oz dates
  1. Beat eggs till foamy.
  2. Beat in sugar and vanilla.
  3. Add dry ingredients.
  4. Add dates and nuts.
  5. Bake in greased 8" square pan 325 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
  6. Cut into finger size pieces while warm.
  7. Roll in confectioners sugar.    

 Grandma Gundlach's Brown Lebkuchen    Recipe Source: Mary Krueger Gundlach

  • 1 lb brown sugar  
  • 1 pint molasses  
  • ½ cup butter  
  • 1 cup fruit juice  
  • 1 tsp cinnamon  
  • 1 tsp salt  
  • 1 tsp baking soda  
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • brandy - dates - nuts - citron  
  • 8 cups flour

GLAZE:

  • powdered sugar
  • water
  1. Use large kettle.
  2. Boil sugar and molasses together for 5 minutes.
  3. Cool and add butter.
  4. When lukewarm add all but flour.
  5. Stir in flour.
  6. Let stand overnight.
  7. Roll and cut into diamonds with a knife.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees about 12 minutes.
  9. Glaze while warm with powdered sugar and water.    

 Grandma's Ice Box Form Cookies                            Recipe Source: Anita Feick  

These are the cut-out cookies that we always made at Christmas. We had many animal cutters so we called them animal cookies.  

  • 1 lb sugar  
  • 1 lb butter  
  • 3   eggs  
  • 3/4 cup milk  
  • 8 cups flour  
  • 8 tsp baking powder  
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • salt
  1. Mix then chill overnight.
  2. Roll and cut into forms with cookie cutters.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes.
  4. Frost with white icing and use colored sugars.    

 Icing for Animal Cookies

The traditional Feick method of putting the colored sugar on, is mixing your own sugar and food coloring and putting very think lines of colored sugar on the cookies.  

  • 1 scant cup white sugar  
  • 1/3 cup water  
  • 1 pinch cream of tartar  
  • 1   egg white
  1. Cook sugar, water, cream of tartar to softball stage.
  2. Beat the egg white in a bowl at the last minute. Slowly pour the syrup in while beating egg white.
  3. Frost cookies quickly and sprinkle them with colored sugars. Frosting will not dry if air is too humid. If that happens, dry them in a barely warm oven.    

Mamie's Jelly Cookies                                       Recipe Source: Nancy Himmelein

Nancy was a close friend of Anita Feick. She was raised in the south and was an excellent southern cook.

  • 2 sticks butter  
  • 2½ cups flour  
  • 4 tbs sugar  
  • 1 tsp vanilla  
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  1. Work together and roll.
  2. Cut and bake in a slow oven.
  3. Put a spoon of jelly on top with 1/2 pecan.
  4. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.    

 Mondal Schnit

  • 4   eggs  
  • 1 cup sugar  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • 2 cups flour
  • blanched almonds
  1. 4 eggs weighed and beaten whites and yolks separately.
  2. Same weight sugar, butter, flour.
  3. Stir yolks, sugar, butter for 1 hour.
  4. Add flour and beaten whites.
  5. Put in 2 pans and place blanched almonds on top.
  6. Bake 350 degrees.
  7. Cut into strips.   

 Mother's Pie Crust Cookies                                    Recipe Source: Anita Feick

MIX LIKE PIE DOUGH:  

  • 5 cups flour  
  • 2 cups sugar  
  • ½ tsp salt  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • 2 tsp baking powder  
  • 1 tsp baking soda

ADD:  

  • 2   eggs  
  • 1 cup milk  
  • 1 tsp vanilla  
  • 1 tsp lemon extract
  1. Roll out and cut with round cookie cutter.
  2. Bake at 350 degrees until brown.
  3. Mother always rolled them thick, cut them large and sprinkled them with sugar before baking.    

Peanut Butter Cookies                                    Recipe Source: Anita Feick

  • 1 cup peanut butter  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • 1 cup brown sugar  
  • 1 cup white sugar  
  • 2   eggs  
  • 2 tsp vanilla  
  • 3 cups flour  
  • 2 scant tsp baking soda  
  1. Mix.
  2. Roll into balls.
  3. Flatten with a fork dipped in flour.
  4. Use ungreased baking sheet.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees until light brown.  

Sheet Cookies                 Source : Mrs. Henry Giese - My Aunt Doris, mom's sister

  • 1   egg  
  • 1½ cups flour  
  • 3/4 cup sugar  
  • 1 cup raisins (cooked)  
  • ½ cup water from raisins  
  • 1 tsp baking soda  
  • ¼ cup butter  
  • ¼ tsp salt  
  • ½ tsp cinnamon  
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg  
  1. Cook raisins in water.
  2. Cool.
  3. Mix shortening and sugar.
  4. Add eggs and mix.
  5. Add salt, spices then add flour and soda alternately with raisin water.
  6. Add raisins.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes in a greased and floured cookie pan, 10½x15½ inches.
  8. Bake until brown.
  9. Glaze with thin frosting made with powdered sugar and milk while still warm.
  10. Cut in squares and serve. Delicious!    

Springerle  

  • Anise seeds  
  • 4   eggs  
  • 2 cups sugar  
  • 4 cups flour  
  • 1 tsp baking soda  
  • 2 tsp anise extract
  1. Grease cookie sheets; sprinkle with anise seeds.
  2. Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy-light and thick in a large bowl. (Beating will take 5 minutes with an electric mixer. This step is important so your cookies will have a frosty top layer.
  3. Stir in flour, a third at a time, soda and anise extract, blending well to form a stiff dough.
  4. Roll out, about a third at a time, ½-inch thick, on a lightly floured pastry cloth or board with a plain rolling pin.
  5. Flour springerle rolling pin or individual molds. Roll pin slowly only once over dough; pressing down firmly enough to make clear designs. Dough will now be about ¼ inch thick.
  6. Cut along lines to separate designs. Cut around borders of individual designs.
  7. Lift each cookie carefully; moisten bottom with a drop of water.
  8. Place one inch apart on prepared cookie sheets. Brush excess flour from tops.
  9. Let cookies stand, uncovered, overnight to dry.
  10. Bake in slow oven (300 degrees) for 15 minutes, or until firm and dry. Cookies should not brown.
  11. Remove from cookie sheets to wire racks; cool completely. Store in a tightly covered container about a week to mellow. 

Walnut Balls                                Recipe Source: Mrs. Brandle, Friend of Anita Feick

  • ½ lb butter  
  • ¼ cup sugar  
  • 2½ cups flour
  • salt  
  • 1 tsp vanilla  
  • ½ tsp baking powder  
  • 1 cup ground black walnuts
  1. Put ½ of the flour with the butter and sugar and the other ½ with the nuts.
  2. Mix separately, then together.
  3. Bake 25 minutes at 300 degrees.
  4. Roll in confectioner's sugar while warm.     

Wandering Jew Cookies                                      Recipe Source: Anita Feick 

  • 1 cup sugar  
  • ½ cup brown sugar  
  • 1 cup butter  
  • ½ pkg seeded raisins (ground)  
  • 3   eggs  
  • 1 tsp cloves  
  • ½ tsp nutmeg  
  • 3 cups flour  
  • salt and nuts
  1.  Drop and flatten with a fork.
  2. Bake at 350 degrees.    

White Lebkuchen                       Recipe Source: Mylitta Taubert Feick 

  • 1½ lbs powdered sugar  
  • 4   eggs  
  • ½ tbsp cinnamon  
  • ½ tsp cloves
  • wine glass of brandy  
  • 1 tbsp citron  
  • 2 cups nuts  
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • rind and juice of lemon
  • salt  
  • 3 cups or more of flour to make stiff
  1. Beat sugar and eggs 15 minutes before adding other ingredients.      

Xmas Pretzel Cookies                                               Recipe Source: Anita Feick        

  • 1 lb butter  
  • 1 lb powdered sugar  
  • 4   eggs  
  • 4 tbsp sour cream  
  • 4 tsp baking powder  
  • 4 lbs flour (8 cups)
  1. Make and let stand 2-3.
  2. Roll and cut out.
  3. Let stand.
  4. Paint with egg yolk and sprinkle with ground nuts.
  5. Bake.