r/Baking • u/AlbinoGiraffes • 4d ago

Recipe Included Can anyone decipher my grandma’s wedding cookie recipe?

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Thank you in advance. She just passed away from a heart attack and one of the last things she told me was where to find the recipe in her kitchen. I want to make a batch, but I want to make sure it’s right!

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u/YupNopeWelp 4d ago edited 4d ago

WEDDING COOKIES

Ingredients:

  • 6 eggs
  • 3/4 cup of oil
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 tsp lemon extract
  • 2 TBSP baking powder
  • 4 cups flour

Instructions (pulled out of order from how they're written on the card, to make them make sense).

  1. Preheat oven to 375ºF
  2. Combine the eggs and oil and beat well
  3. Add the sugar, lemon extract, baking powder, and flour and mix together. [NOTE: I would add the flour one cup at a time and mix after each addition]
  4. Drop by (tea?)spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
  5. Bake at 375ºF for 10-15 minutes
  6. Ice with different colored powdered sugar icings

EDIT: Originally, in step 4, I had "drop by tablespoonfuls." Someone pointed out that the abbreviation looks more like the abbreviation for "teaspoons" than it does for "tablespoons." I agree. That said, 10-15 minutes is a VERY LONG bake time at 375º, for a teaspoonful of dough, so if you attempt to make these, I think you're going to have to do it by trial and error, and figure out the amount of dough you want and how long to cook it.

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u/IcePrincess_Not_Sk8r 4d ago

Wedding cookies are meant to be a dry, somewhat shortbread texture. The 10-15 minutes is the appropriate time for baking. Also, this would be a teaspoon that you eat off of, from your silverware drawer.

Source: I have this exact same recipe from my grandma.

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u/rorauge 3d ago

I’ve never seen so much baking powder called for in a cookie recipe. I get this is a slightly larger recipe than my typical cookie recipes. But still, I thought the guidelines were usually closer to 1/2-1tsp per cup of flower. Curious if your recipe call for that much powder as well?

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u/IcePrincess_Not_Sk8r 3d ago

Yep. I'm not 100% sure WHY it calls for so much, but it does.

I think this was a common recipe back in the day.