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 [1]. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy of the card that you can click to view larger if you like.
Beatrice Cooke’s Special Recipe
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1 cup Meadow Gold Butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 Meadow Gold Eggs, beaten
1/2 cup Meadow Gold Whipping Cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
2 Meadow Gold Egg Yolks, beaten
Colored sugar or chopped nuts
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs, cream and vanilla. Add sifted dry ingredients gradually, mixing well after each addition. Chill dough for several hours. Roll out on lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut with various shaped cooky cutters. Place on ungreased cooky sheet; brush with egg yolks; sprinkle with colored sugar or chopped nuts. Bake at 400° or 8-10 minutes. Makes 12 dozen cookies.
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