This recipe was clipped from a magazine and comes from a collection of recipes dating from the 1960s through the 1970s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.
REMEMBER WHEN YOUR grandmothers used to make fancy cardamom cookies for Christmas? They were cut in fancy shapes and decorated so prettily. Bring back the past [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper and comes from a collection of recipes dating from the 1960s through 1970s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.
Grandma’s Old Fashioned Girl Scout Cookies
One cup raisins
One cup shortening or butter
One cup granulated sugar
One cup brown sugar
One tsp. vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
One tsp. baking soda
Three cups all-purpose [...]

This is a promo recipe card from Beatrice Foods featuring the Beatrice Cooke character. There’s no date but Beatrice Cooke was a well known fictitious figure in magazine ads in the 1940’s and 50’s, and featured recipes relating to Meadow Gold Dairy Products. Source: Beatrice Foods Memorial. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned [...]

This is a recipe written on a sheet of memo paper from a shipping company (Frisco). Date is unknown, recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy that you can click to view larger.
Date Yummies
Beat:
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Dash of salt
Add:
1 cup chopped dates
Cook for 8 min after beginning to simmer at edge [...]

This recipe article was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Cookies With Wine
FOR MRS. K. G. HOLLER, 935 Redfern av., one recipe for cookies made with wine came from both Mrs. Cora Noe of Rittman and Gretta Hall, 113 State st. W, in Barberton. Their recipes–of which [...]

This recipe was clipped from a magazine, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Pumpkin Cookies
Mother’s choice–children eat these soft cookies without making crumbs
1/2 c. shortening
1 1/4 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 c. canned or frozen mashed pumpkin
2 1/2 c. sifted flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. [...]

This recipe was clipped from “The WORKBASKET” magazine, 1978. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.
Touch-of-Lemon Sugar Cookies
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
3 1/4 cups Pillsbury’s Best All Purpose or Unbleached Flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Sugar
In large [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown but probably the 1970s judging by the picture on the other side. It’s a bit tattered along one side but still readable. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Reader’s Recipe
OVERNIGHT COOKIES
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 t. imitation vanilla flavoring
1 1/2 [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Try lemon drops
Sometime when you’re in a cookie-baking mood, try these lemon drops. It’s possible they’ll become a favorite with your family.
Lemon drops
1/2 cup solid, all-vegetable shortening
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown but probably the 1980s or 1990s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Toll House Pan Cookies
2-1/4 cups unsifted flour
1 measuring teaspoon baking soda
1 measuring teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 measuring teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
One 12-oz. pkg. (2 [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper and found in a large collection of one cook’s clipping collection. Date is unknown, the recipes in this collection ranged from the 1940s through the 1980s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Applesauce Cookies
3/4 cup soft shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup applesauce
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper, date unknown. It was filed with “candy” recipes but I think this is a cookie, if I’m wrong please let me know :). Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

Recipe of the Week
Mrs. Anita Atoulikian 6006 Southington Drive, Parma, calls this the “butteriest butterball of them [...]

This recipe was clipped from a magazine, date unknown. The recipes found in this box were mainly from the 1950s through the 1980s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy (click to view larger).

Autumn Gingerbread Cookies
Makes about 2 dozen gingerbread cookies
3/4 cup light or dark molasses
3/4 cup FLEISCHMANN’S Original Margarine (1 1/2 sticks)
3/4 [...]

This recipe was clipped from a newspaper, date is unknown but most of the recipes in this collection were from the 1940s through the 1960s. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.

EASY MIX COOKIES
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup butter
4 tblsp. cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1 teasp. vanilla
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups uncooked instant oatmeal
Mix sugar, butter, [...]

This recipe was clipped from packaging of some kind, probably a bag of flour. Date is unknown. The recipe is typed below as well as a scanned copy.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Bake at 375°, 10 to 12 minutes
Makes 5 dozen cookies
CREAM . . . 1/2 cup shortening and
1/4 cup peanut butter until light.
ADD
GRADUALLY . . . 1 [...]

This recipe was clipped from packaging, probably a bag of Pillsbury’s Best Flour. Date unknown. The recipe is typed in full below as well as a scanned copy to view.

MONEY SAVING RECIPE!
FROM THE
Pillsbury Pantry
CHILDREN’S CHOICE COOKIES
(Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies)
2 1/4 cups Pillsbury’s Best All Purpose or Unbleached Flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown [...]

This recipe was cut out from a box of Bisquick, date is unknown. The full recipe is typed below along with a scanned image.
Bisquick
Mince Meat COOKIES
Preheat oven to 400°.
Place in saucepan . . . one 9-oz. pkg. “None Such”* condensed mince meat
Break into pieces with a fork.
Add . . . one 14 1/2-oz. can undiluted [...]

This recipe was clipped from a cardboard box of Bisquick, date unknown. The recipe is typed in full below along with a scanned image.
“1-2-3″
COOKIES
(PEANUT BUTTER)
Preheat oven to 400°.
Mix . . . 1 cup peanut butter
1 cup granulated sugar or 1 cup brown sugar (packed in cup)
1/2 cup boiling water
Blend with rotary beater or spoon [...]

This recipe was cut from some sort of packaging by Betty Crocker, probably flour. The recipe is typed in full below as well as view a scanned copy. Date this was published is unknown.

PEANUT BUTTER-CHOCOLATE KISSES
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
1/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1 [...]

This is a clipping from some sort of paper packaging, maybe a box of mincemeat? Recipe is typed in full below with a scan of the clipping alongside.
Recipe for
MINCE MEAT COOKIES
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup Shortening
1 Egg
1 1/2 Teaspoonful Mixed Spice
1 Cup Mince Meat
1 1/2 Cups Sifted Flour
1 1/2 Teaspoonful Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoonful Salt
1/2 Cup Nut [...]

This is an Ann Pillsbury recipe card that was published in 1951, it folds over with the recipe on one part while the other part of the card includes a coupon with descriptions for the Coupon Plan. Recipe is typed out in full below with a scan of the card, click it to view a [...]

This is a newspaper clipping of a recipe for Honey Apple Cookies, date unknown. The recipe is typed in full below along with a scan, click to view larger if you like.
Honey Apple Cookies
1/2 c. shortening
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. honey
2 eggs
1/4 c. dairy sour cream
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. each soda, salt, cinnamon
1/2 tsp. each [...]

Here is a sweet mini-pamphlet for “1-2-3″ cookies (a few different variations). This was published by General Mills in 1951 and includes a 1 Gold Medal Coupon. You can view both sides of the pamphlet below, just click to view a larger copy.

“1-2-3″
(Peanut Butter)
Cookies
Mix . . .
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup granulated sugar or 1 [...]

Here’s a recipe clipped from packaging of some sort, maybe from a sugar bag since a particular brand of sugar is listed in the ingredients. There’s a spoon graphic with “18 calories” shown at the bottom of the recipe, not bad for a cookie :). There’s no date on this, found in a box of [...]

Here’s an old recipe clipping from a newspaper that I guess to be around the 1970s judging by the hairstyle and eyeglasses of the pictured writer. This clipping is from a newspaper in Wichita, KS, I believe since there’s a mailing address underneath the writer’s picture.
TIPS TO CLIP
“Buttermint Tuck-In Cookies”
Add this recipe to your Christmas [...]