Old-Fashioned Cookies and Drop Cakes: Chocolate, Lemon, Mixed Spice & More

Old-fashioned cookies come in a variety of flavors: chocolate, lemon, cinnamon, rose and mixed spice to name a few. This antique cookie recipe collection contains 400 plus old-time cookie recipes. Throughout the cook book, you’ll also find old-fashioned ads and advice from the original cookbooks. Whip up a batch of old-fashioned cookies or drop cakes and take a tasty trip back in time.

1847 Spiced Midgets with Pistachio Frosting
1881 Sugar Plum Children’s Cookies
1886 Vanilla Rice Flour Plunkets
1889 Naples Lemon Biscuits
1891 Fried Cinnamon Cookies
1893 Cocoanut Yum-Yums
1900 Love Knots
1904 Jelly Moonshiners
1905 Noah’s Ark Cookies
1907 Orange & Fig Chocolate Dominoes
1908 Chinese Preserved Ginger Cookies
1912 Rose & Marshmallow Squares with Almonds
1913 Shrewsbury Cookies
1915 Raspberry Jam Filled Cookies
1916 Pecan & Citron Cookies
1920 Reliable or Seven Minute Icing
1921 Fried Orange & Mace Knots
1922 Lemon & Cardamom Alphabet Cookies
1923 Spiced Coffee & Dried Fruit Cookies

“What are cookies?...Cookies are small, flat, hard, sweetened cakes.” - The Way We Did At Cooking School (1896)