Recipe for Pineapple Cookies

Pineapple Cookies Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 can crushed pineapple
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions Recipe for Pineapple Cookies

Stir vanilla into crushed pineapple. Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Add pineapple and stir until well blended. Sift flour, salt, soda, and baking powder together. Stir gradually into batter. When mix thoroughly drop by spoonful on to ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes.

Pineapple Squares Recipe

Ingredients required
1 can crushed pineapple
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup Crisco

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Pineapple Squares Recipe

Put the crushed pineapple in pan with the next 3 ingredients. Bring to a boil till cornstarch is clear. Set aside. Then mix all the next ingredients together to get a crumble affect. Put half of this into the greased 7 1/2 by 7 1/2 square pan, spread pineapple mixture over and cover the rest of mixture. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. After baking, cool. Cover with confectioners sugar. Make 16 squares. Variation: Instead of pineapple take cherry pie filling. Serve warm with ice cream.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.