Old Timey Christmas Nuggets Cookie Recipe
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Old Timey Christmas Nuggets Cookie Recipe
This Depression era recipe shows that hard times didn't mean that all fun and celebration stopped. Not at all!
Christmas Nuggets
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
1¼ cups brown sugar
½ cup shortening
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup currants
½ cup mixed chopped fruit; candied cherries, citron and lemon peel
1 cup chopped pecans
1 tablespoon milk
Sift together first four ingredients; add sugar; add shortening and mix in with fork.
Add unbeaten eggs and flavoring; mix well. Add fruits, nuts and milk.
Drop by spoonfuls greased baking sheet.
Bake in moderate oven at 375° F. about 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 5 dozen.
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Any guesses on how many Barley Corns fit into a #50 scoop?
Like having to learn that shortening is just any room temperature fat, I had to learn that "corn" is really means a small nugget of a grain or even salt (corned beef). To check myself I looked up "barleycorn" and found that it is also a unit of length measurement
"The barleycorn is an English unit of length[1] equal to 1⁄3 of an inch (i.e. about 8.47 mm). It is still used as the basis of shoe sizes in English-speaking countries."
47 or 53... if it's 50 well...
11 barleycorns
Now I want to reverse Christmas nugget mix my chocolate chip cookie recipe and see what that does
I would guess more than 50, I will say 70
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I adore Glen's genteel rants.
My grandmother made these cookies and I've been looking for the recipe forever! I can't wait to make these and unlock a ton of memories of sitting in her small kitchen and consuming my body weight. She called them Fruitcake Cookies, but Christmas Nuggets work just as well. Thank you so much for making this video!
I guess it's never too early for Christmas cookie 🎉🎉🎉
Yes! My mind has wandering about what to bake for Christmas and it’s September haha
I did it all for the cookie, the Christmas cookie.
Or too late, either 😊
Year-round 😊😊😊
Thank you for the definition of "shortening". For someone outside of North America and a none English speaking country. Using recipe from across the pond, I have always struggled with that word. Butter I can get, even lard. But something like Cristco is not available. This helps a lot.
These are going into my Christmas rotation. I think I’ll add nutmeg and a pinch of cloves.
great idea!
Cloves don't get the attention they deserve!
I'm with Julie.. Yay! Cookies! those look wonderful, a nice little drop cookie perfect with a nice cup of tea
Yes! That's the first thing that popped into my head. When he said 'cakey', I heard 'absorbant'!
My gran had this recipe written into the "cookie book" published in the 60's and she called them gum drop cookies. The nut and dried fruit varied depending upon what was at hand. My favorite was rasins, candies citrus peel, dried cherries, and almonds. Still a household favorite, and great dunked in tea.
I absolutely LOVE this channel! Not only do I often learn something new, but regularly get regaled with interesting stories and find a new variation on a recipe I'd like to try!
As an aside, I grew up on a farm and we made just about everything from scratch; from my grandmothers, I learned that "shortening" just meant Crisco. When they finally wrote their recipes down, they would specify "lard," "butter," or "shortening," to indicate what kind of fat to use. While it makes sense that shortening can mean any kind of fat, the resulting product will differ depending on what kind of fat to use and so I am very grateful that my grandmothers specified the exact type of fat so that I can still replicate their recipes and have them come out tasting like I remember from childhood! ❤
My mom made a version of these cookies and her recipe called them “Christmas Rocks” and they taste like my childhood!
Not a fan of currants, too wee and hard, but fortunately in the UK (in my case Scottish Borders) we also have raisins (bigger, lighter and juicier) and my favourite sultanas (even bigger and much lighter).
I have inherited my Great Granny’s Royal Recipe Book. Imported from the US in 1929. The painted illustrations are so beautiful. Thanks for all your hard work.
Love raisins and sultanas, but also currents as well. You are right that they can be rather hard - I usually plump them in hot water for about a half-hour first.
Yes, it's hard to make a bad cookie😁 & thanks for the hint on freezing portioned dough!
In the USA, ice cream was sold mostly by the half gallon for the longest time. Several years ago, "shrinkflation" struck and the containers got smaller.
I think it might be the commercial bucket that ice cream parlors use in this case.I could see those having fifty scoops easily.
Love it when you break out the small Kitchen Aid Mixer! Don’t know if it’s intentional but it has the same colors as your plane! Intentional? Cute, regardless.
Rant on Glen, it can be very informative. The never-ending saga of what currants are will always amuse this Brit. Now diagnosed as diabetic it is a shame that I will no longer have the opportunity to try this little Christmas gem, not that I have much of a sweet tooth.
I love it when you put a little something at the very end ❤!
I'll be making these this year! A long time ago, I stumbled on a PET No Bake fruit cake. I gave it a whirl, but I think I did something wrong. Would love to hear if you've made this recipe before.
PET MILK EVAPORATED NEW NO-BAKE FRUITCAKE
1. In 3-qt. saucepan over medium heat, stir 2/3 cup PET Evaporated Milk (1 small can), 2 cups KRAFT Miniature Marshmallows and 6 Tblsp undiluted Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate until marshmallows melt. Take off heat.
2. Stir in 3/4 cup cut-up dates, 3/4 cup raisins, 1 cup broken walnuts, 1 cup Mixed Candied fruit, and 1/4 cup candied cherries. Stir in until well blended a mixture of 4 cups fine Sugar Honey Graham Cracker Crumbs, 1 tsp. Cinnamon, 1 tsp. Nutmeg and 1/2 tsp. cloves.
3. Press firmly into 5 to 6 cup ring mold or loaf pan lined with waxed paper. Cover tightly. Chill 2 days. Makes 3 Ibs. For large fruitcake---double recipes, use 9-in. angel cake pan. Makes 6 lbs.
Sounds like the fruit jumble recipe I make every Christmas.
Different strokes for different folks - I’d pile in the spices. Cookies that keep their shape for those who shy away from the unexpected 🫢
Wikipedia has an article on shortening, it explains what Glen says. Also it's in the name, it's something that "shortens" gluten fibres.
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I like this recipe. Nice and simple. Fir me Christmas is too hectic and stressful.
I was told 'Christmas nuggets' was Reindeer poop
hahaha
same - grandma (born 1921) baked these with roasted salted peanuts and called them Flying Reindeer Turds
Yeah we have something like that in a book from the 70s called reindeer plops. 😆 Omg I just remembered as kids we used to call them Doodie Poos!!!
😂😂😂😂
Never change, dude.
That recipe for hermits beside the Christmas nuggets recipe looks like one my grandmother used to make here in NS when I was a kid.
I make a cookie very close to thiis one but with glazed cherries will try this one Never too early for Christmas cookies I do cookie boxes for friends and family so I start the first day of fall make the cookie do freeze them bake them off all at once Krrp up the great videos
And to mess with you, in Australia, we have sultanas as our dried grapes. We get currants and raisins, but sultanas were the one of choice when I was a kid.
We have stores here that are already putting out Christmas goodies, so Christmas nugget biscuits won't be out of place.
I can never find candied peel. This cookie looks yummy! Thanks for the video!
I’m going to think of these as Halloween nuggets lol. Just because.
Of course, Royal was not the only cream of tartar-based leavening in the market. When I think of tasty fats, I also include the British favorite, beef suet. It is fine to use in biscuits for dishes using a beef stock.
Very nice. Thank you.
These look tasty, and I like the idea of nutmeg in them. Maybe some ginger? Thanks for the video.
I think that the vintage Five Roses Cookbook has a version of this cookie called Christmas Drop Cookies. We still make the cherry almond version sometimes around Christmas, but not every year. We make them a fair bit smaller than your though!
I always make the cookies I bake for Christmas smaller, too. Mostly because everyone always wants to try EVERY kind of cookie, and nobody needs a dozen huge cookies all at once (might WANT them, but that's another tale 😄.)
Looks good and was wondering about the reverse cream.
Also love how you guys approach the first batches of a recipe like I do. This is how the recipe says it is but throw in some crib notes about adding nutmeg and other things to tweak it for next time. :)
Milk in a bag, next thing we'll be seeing a house hippo running around. It's been too long since I have driven along the Lake to hit the Falls.
I’ve never been fond of raisins and preserved peel in cookies, I think it’s more a textural thing rather than just taste. But I think these might be good with dried apricots.
I'm just starting to plan my Christmas baking, so I've tucked this recipe into my files. Looking forward to trying them. Please give us news about Hope Air from time to time, especially if you do a flight yourself. (I know you wouldn't intrude on the family's privacy, but it would be interesting to know a bit afterward about what it's like from the pilot's perspective.)
Thank you for explaining the difference between butter & shortening. I'm from Wisconsin we take butter very seriously here. My Great Gramma was a butter fundamentalist. She died at 102 in 1994 & till literally the very day she took a nap & died in her chair if she found any shortening or Crisco in your home she would scoop it into the garbage can with her fingers. Then she would shake the filthy fingers at you & go into a rant about commie propaganda detailing how our family lives on dairy & you will too or else! This rant often was a mangled mess of English, German & words that I'm positive our family made up over a century ago being we still speak loose German on the homestead.
It's so serious for us here in Wisconsin we actually have state wide butter laws. Only recently have they begun a slow change to allow Kerrygold even into the state. If a recipe doesn't call for butter I was raised to properly translate the recipe to say butter because obviously the author was raised wrong & didn't have an Oma Marja-Ana to teach them how to live right.
I love this story 😂😂😂. Thanks for sharing 👍 ❤️
Thanks Glen! I'll be making these for Christmas!
This very similar in method to a British "rock cake's though I would add the sugar after the rubbing/cutting in stage - almost like a scone.. just a view from across the pond.
Never too early for nuggies
Any time a recipe calls for raisins.. I use my favorite dried vegetable instead..chocolate chips.
What? chocolate comes from a bean..
White chocolate chips that are colored red and green would probably work to keep that theme.
If Dollarama can put out Christmas stuff then Glen can make Xmas cookies
"Of course I'm going to spill some."
You're singing my song Glenn 😂
We already have Christmas lights up!
I don't make cookies anymore. The cookies do look good.
I find I get a different texture in some cookies depending on the fat I use. Butter makes them spread out, vegetable shortening not. So I'll go half and half to get the flavor and the shape I want. Especially true of tollhouse cookies.
Yummy 😋 😊 I love fruity cookies.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your ovens for holiday baking! Hopefully it'll cool off soon so I can bear to use my oven again. Time to buy baking supplies
They need to rename the cookie. Christmas nuggets sound like a euphemism for presents left by Santa's reindeer.
😂😂😂😂
Freezing cookies raw, individually, is not something I have tried. I have avoided making cookies for years, because I can't afford to eat the sugar. However, I am now inspried to make a batch of cookie dough freeze raw individual cookies, and bake one at a time in the air fryer, for a rare treat!
Ooooh, yummmm! But, what was in the pot on the stove?? It looked like a stew? Thanks for another great video!
Ya my grandma made them, called them Rocks.
I thought you had uploaded this by mistake! Oh well, they look lovoey and give me an excuse to be the first person this year to say bah humbug! to christmas!
Please do the barley nugget test! Inquiring minds want to know.
#50 is based on quarts of ice cream.
Great cookie recipe...now, what's in the pot? :P
On the topic of history and shortening, just finished Nina Teicholz book “The Big Fat Surprise” talking about BigFood “researching and developing” “healthy oil replacements” the past 100ish yrs
the most common size of ice cream in America is a half gallon, we also have pints and full gallons
In this case, I think the Commonwealth has different descriptions - in Australia (Victoria in particular) currants are very small, sweet dried black currants and Raisins are larger than sultanas. At least, that's how I've always known and referred to them.
Pretty sure you're mistaken - those currants are 'raisins' - a 'raisin' being any dried grape, even sultanas are a type of 'raisin': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin
Dried fruits called currants are in fact dried zante or Corinth grapes, varieties orig from the Greek island & area respectively. Dried red, white or black currants, species Ribes are not worth eating - been there, done that many times while picking.
One part of Crisco's claims is true: Crisco contains less water than butter or margarine. But that is true of most rendered fats like lard and bacon fat: The rendering operation separates out any water.
What is exaggerated by their claims is the effect this will have on the results. The amount of water in butter is probably less than the natural variation of the water contents of other ingredients, such as flour and sugar (especially brown sugar), and also less than the variation in the size of eggs.
What's the Hermits recipe on the same?
Disher size = # portions per US quart.
I wonder if the amount if eggs (3) have anything to to with the order it was mixed
Now I’m ready for a Christmas Nugget! I know Glen has said many times where he got is mixer paddle from, but I can’t find it. Can someone help me?
It looks like a KitchenAid Artisan series mixer.
@@patspinelli6767The paddle is produced by a third party company for the mixer.
Is Christmas right around the corner? It’s about 150 million miles away.
Until you blink and Christmas is looming right over you 😂😂😂
Christmas? I still think it is New Years Day.....9 months later....
How do we order your merchandise?
A perfect example common sense vs the process of indoctrination.
Glen: 4:06 “Marketing is all about……..” You’re not just talking about food products Are you? Or maybe American political ads with all their yelling and yelling and yelling don’t cross into Canada. If so, you ARE so, so lucky.🤔🤔
Respectfully, W.S.
I can see it now, on Glen’s tombstone 🪦: Welcome Friends. Glen would like you to know, dried currants are a raisin and shortening can be any solid fat.