Recipes

Woman’s Day December 1949: The Cookie Jar, 52 Cookie Recipes

A platter of bar cookies with the caption: Filled Oatmeal Bars may be made with raisins or mincemeat.

Here’s a collection of 52 cookie recipes-Old favorites and new, ranging from the expensive to the really cheap. You can pick the type you like most to make-rolled and cut, hand-shaped, sliced, dropped, or simple bars and squares.
Vintage magazine page titled The Cookie Jar by Glenna McGinnis featuring recipes for rolled and cut cookies.

Vintage magazine page with cookie recipes and Tyrolean seed cookies cut into decorative holiday shapes.

Magazine recipe page for dropped and pressed cookies with a bowl of baked fudge bars and decorated cookies.

Vintage recipe page featuring a plate of large crisp oatmeal cookies beside wrapped holiday packages.

Magazine recipe page showing a bowl heaped with round nut butter ball cookies dusted in powdered sugar.

Vintage magazine recipe page with a platter of round glazed almond cookies arranged in neat rings.

Recipe page for sliced cookies featuring a plate piled with filled oatmeal cookie bars.

Vintage magazine page featuring recipes for cookie bars and squares alongside a complete recipe index.

Magazine page with cookie recipes alongside vintage advertisements for Herb-Ox, Hip-O-Lite marshmallow creme, and May-bud cheese.