Apple Bars (recipe courtesy of Marge Haladyna)
2 c. flour
½ c. sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 stick butter or margarine
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
1 can apple pie filling

Mix dry ingredients. Mix butter with dry ingredients until it has a crumbly texture. Add egg, & vanilla and keep working it with a pastry blender. Using an oblong pyrex dish, place ½ of mix in bottom of dish. Put apple pie filling in then mix the remaining “mix” with
2 tablespoons of Brown Sugar. Place this remaining mix over apples and sprinkle with cinnamon. Put pats of butter on top and bake at 375 degrees Farenheit for 25 to 30 minutes (until golden brown).

Peanut Butter Blossom Kisses ( recipe courtesy of Mrs. Paradiso)

Ingredients:

1&3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup shortening (any kind (Crisco, oleomargarine &c.))
½ cup chunk peanut butter
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
48 Hershey Kisses

Mix all ingredients except kisses together and chill in refrigerator until firm. Roll 48 individual balls, each a little larger than the kisses, and roll the balls in additional sugar. Please balls onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 375 degrees Farenheit for 10-12 minutes. Press kisses into cookies after baking cookies; let cookies cool until firm

Snickerdoodles (recipe courtesy of Rose Mikula)

Mix thoroughly
One stick butter and one stick of margarine OR one cup Crisco
1&1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs

Sift together and stir in
2&3/4 cups flour
2tsp cream of tarter
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt

Chill dough overnight; roll bals a little smaller than a walnut, then roll each ball in a _mixture_ of
2 tbsp sugar and
1 tsp cinnamon

Place balls 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet; bake at 400 degrees farenheit for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly brown, yet still soft. Cookie will puff up at first, then will flatten itself out. Cookie will appear cracked. Yield 5 dozen 2-inch cookies.

Thumb Print Cookies (recipe courtesy of Marge Haladyna)

Mix thoroughly together
½ cup soft shortening (half butter)
¼ cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk
½ tsp vanilla

Sift together and stir in
1 cup sifted flour and
½ tsp salt

Roll into 1 inch balls. Dip in slightly beaten egg white. Roll in finely chopped nuts (3/4 cup walnuts or other nuts) and place about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees Farenheit for 5 minutes. Remove from oven. Quickly press thumb gently on top of each cookie. Return to oven and bake 8 minutes longer. Cool. Place candied fruit, sparkling jelly or confectioner’s sugar icing into thumbprint. Yield 2 dozen 1-1/2 inch cookies.

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