Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from 1950

by Lynn // November 9, 2012

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Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from 1950

This recipe booklet is from the 1940’s or 50’s, making this recipe very old (like me:) I found this recipe for Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from 1950 in a recipe booklet that was my mom’s. When I was young, I thought it was so cool that you could keep the dough in the refrigerator and slice & bake the cookies anytime. I guess you could say that this recipe for Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies is the ‘original’ slice n’ bake cookie.

Childhood Memory

When I was growing up, I would sit in the kitchen, at our tiny table with the white Formica top, with the sides that folded up or down. The small patted chairs went swoosh when you sat down. I sat at that table often while on the phone and page through this recipe booklet. When I was growing up, we were considered ‘lucky’ because we had two phones, one upstairs for ‘us girls’ to use and one downstairs in the kitchen, next to the little white table.

Back in the Day

Back in the day we had one phone line. If you picked up the phone upstairs and someone was on the phone downstairs, you could listen in on their conversation, if you didn’t get caught. One phone line, in a house full of teenage girls! It’s hard to imagine that, in this day of cell phones. Anyway, I remember being on the phone, sitting at the little white kitchen table, rummaging through the kitchen drawers. No doubt looking for paper to doodle on.

*For this recipe we used Medjool dates from Natural Delights