Old Fashioned Almond Cookies Recipe

Grandma's old fashioned almond cookies recipes will help you to make delicious cookies with the fresh flavor of almond that your whole family will enjoy.

I've always loved an almond cookie as a treat after a Chinese buffet, but these homemade almond cookies taste so much better than any store-bought or restaurant variety.

These easy-to-make cookies are a great choice for taking on summertime picnics or for serving at parties or as an after-school snack.

Old Fashioned Almond Cookies Recipes

Mom's Recipe Scrapbooks (c. 1920s)

Golden Almond Cookies

1 egg, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2-3/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, salt to taste, vanilla or almond flavoring, 1/2 cup of blanched almonds.

Cream butter well, add other ingredients, let stand overnight, cut desired size, shape, and thickness, and bake a golden brown (350°F). —Mrs. W. McDonald

Fancy Almond Cookies

Beat to a hard sauce 1/4 pound sweet butter and 1/4 pound pulverized sugar (sifted). Add the yolks of 3 well-beaten eggs.

When a smooth cream, add 4 ounces blanched and sliced almonds, and 6 ounces flour (in which has been sifted 1 teaspoon baking powder). Stir with a wooden spoon until a smooth paste.

Use granulated sugar in making the dough into balls, and set these 1 inch apart in greased pan. Wet the tops lightly and sprinkle with sugar and place an almond in the center of each. Bake to a light straw color (350°F).

Fannie Farmer's Old Fashioned Almond Cookies Recipe

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1916)

Brandy Almond Cookies

1/2 cup butter, 1 egg, 1/3 cup almonds blanched and finely chopped, grated rind 1/2 lemon, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon, 1/2 tablespoon clove, 1/2 tablespoon nutmeg, 2 tablespoons brandy (or apple juice), 2 cups flour.

Cream the butter, add egg well beaten, almonds, sugar, brandy, and spices mixed and sifted with flour. Roll mixture to one-fourth inch in thickness, shape with a round cutter first dipped in flour, and bake in a slow oven (300°F).

Almond Jumbles

Three cupfuls of soft sugar, two cupfuls of flour, half a cupful of butter, one teacupful of loppered milk (see note below), five eggs well beaten, two tablespoonfuls of rose-water, three-quarters of a pound of almonds, blanched and chopped very fine, one teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in boiling water.

Cream butter and sugar; stir in the beaten yolks the milk, flour, rosewater, almonds and, lastly, the beaten whites very lightly and quickly; drop in rings on buttered paper and bake at once (350°F).

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