Sugar Jumbles with alternative cookie recipes

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SUGAR JUMBLES ( Recipe)      Little sugar cakes of old-time goodness.
    Mix together thoroughly ...
   

• ½ cup soft shortening (part butter)
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
  

    Sift together and stir in ...
   

• 1⅛ cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour
• ¼ tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. salt
  

    Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2″      apart on lightly greased baking sheet.      Bake until delicately browned ... cookies      should still be soft. Cool slightly ...      then remove from baking sheet.
    TEMPERATURE: 375° (quick mod. oven).
    TIME: Bake 8 to 10 min.
    AMOUNT: About 3 doz. 2″ cookies.
   

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COCONUT JUMBLES

    Follow recipe above—and mix into      the dough 1 cup moist shredded coconut.
   

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

   
          The glamorous Toll House cookies ... first          introduced to American homemakers in 1939          through my series of radio talks on “Famous          Foods from Famous Eating Places.”
   
              Follow  recipe above—except in place      of ½ cup sugar use ¾ cup (half brown,      half white). Then mix into the dough      ½ cup cut-up nuts and one 7-oz. package      chocolate pieces (about 1¼ cups).
   

ORANGE-CHOCOLATE CHIP      COOKIES

    Follow recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies      and add 1 tsp. grated orange rind to the      shortening mixture.
   

3-IN-1 JUMBLES

    Choco-nut ... coco-nut ... date-nut.
    Follow recipe above—and divide      dough into three parts. Choco-Nut: To      one part, add ½ sq. unsweetened chocolate      (½ oz.), melted, and drop whole nutmeats      (½ cup) into it ... coating each thoroughly.      Coco-Nut: To another part, add      ½ cup moist shredded coconut. Date-Nut:      Leave third part plain ... and drop      nut-stuffed dates (14) into it ... coating      each thoroughly. Each coated date and      each coated nut makes a cooky.
   

GLAZED ORANGE JUMBLES

    Double-orange flavor.... Sure to win favor.
    Follow recipe above—mix into dough      1½ tsp. grated orange rind and, if desired,      1 cup chopped nuts. Bake. While hot,      dip tops of cookies in orange glaze (⅓ cup      sugar, 3 tbsp. orange juice, 1 tsp. grated      orange rind ... heated together).
   

BRAZIL OR PECAN JUMBLES

    Follow recipe above—and stir into the      dough 2 cups cut-up Brazil or other nuts.

Betty Crocker, Public Domain