What is a snickerdoodle?  A cookie..yummy and best hot from
the oven.  What is your recipe and best memory about 
this cookie with the funny name?  Do you know where the
name snickerdoodle comes from?  I don't!

21 responses total.

Of course I donot have my recipe with me.  Figures....but 
my best memory of snickerdoodles is making a small batch
and eating everyone of them before they had time to cool.
Tray by tray....what a stomachache.......

 I also have a recipe from my sister's husband's grandmother.

 I'll try to post it in a few days if I can find the book.

            Snickerdoodles
1/2 Cup of soft shortening (part butter or use Butter-flavored Crisco)
3/4 Cup of sugar
1 egg
1 1/3 Cups sifted flour
1 t. salt
1/8 salt     (oh heck...the above is 1 t. of soda!!!!!)

Heat oven to 400 (mod. heat).  Mix shortening, sugar, and egg thouroughly
Sift remainin ingredients together and stir into first mixture.
Roll into balls the size of small walnuts.  Roll in mixture of
1 T. sugar and 1 T cinnamon (my mother always leaves things out of
the first ingredient list...part of her charm).  Place 2" apart on
ungreased baking sheet.  Bake 8 to 10 minutes until lightly
browned but still soft. **NOTE** I pull these puppies out at exactly
8 minutes.  Longer and they get hard.  This seems to keep them nice
and soft.  These cookies will puff up at first and then flatten out.

2 1/2 doz. 2" cookies....I have never gotten that part right.....
I must eat too much cookie dough...<grin>

Um, what is special about snickedoodles? Sounds like a sugar cookie to
me.

Katie...the sugar cookies I have made are much more lengthy in
process and hard in texture....Try making these .  Let me
know what you think!

I thought snickerdoodles were supposed to have a Hersheys (tm) kiss in
the center.

Never heard of that variation. Yummy!
Chocolate can never huurt anything.

I have a different recipe, which I'll post sometime when I'm moreawake and
willing to go find it.

I gave up making cookies when the NE Patriots stopped winning football 
games a couple of years back, but maybe this year is a good time to 
start again..I'm not a real cookie fan.

You aren't a real football fan if you have been rooting for the
Pats!   heehee....I am (of course) a major Saints fan and
a new found Lions fan...if Fontz would just learn how to
coach....

We made snickerdoodles in junior high school home economics ..  maybe
someday I'll find the time to dig up that recipe & compare it to
yours.

I found mine, and it is quite similar to arwen's, except for being written 
with double amounts and using cream of tartar in addition to baking soda.
If anyone's interested, I'm still willing to post it.

Please do!

Heh, we never got to cook in home ec. 'cuz the teacher said that was for
girls...we never got to sew either (except a button, by hand; she said
the sewing machines were too complicated for boys to understand.  Uh huh.
That's what we thought, too, as we walked down the hall to auto shop, and
later went home and made a homemade pizza).  Home ec. sucked...I *wish*
we could have made snickerdoodles.

Okay, here it is:

Mix 1 c. shortening (I just use butter)
    1 1/2 c. sugar

Add 2 eggs.

Mix until creamy.

Stir in:  2 3/4 c. flour
          2 t. cream of tartar
          1/4 t. salt
          1 t. baking soda

Roll into small (walnut size) balls.
Roll the balls in a mixture of 2 T sugar, 2 t. cinnamon.
Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.  
Bake till lightly brown (8-10 min) at 400 F.

This recipe is supposed to yield 60 cookies, but I rarely get close to
that many.  Maybe they use smaller walnuts than I do, I don't know. 
Anyway, enjoy.

Thanks!

Re 14: That sounds like a real clunker of a home ec. class.  :(
We didn't have home ec at my school.  The shop classes I took were
graphic arts (where we spent a lot of time sharing neat Rubik's cube
techniques, and we learned to put into practice a bunch of printing
techniques that were outdated then and are totally obsolete in today's
computer age) and telescope making.  Both were neat, but today I wish
I knew more about how to fix a car or do carpentry on the house or
something more useful.

Typical shop class when I took it taught you how to do hand sanding, if you
were less uncoordinated than I am, & not much else.  Just sanding the wooden
parts of one small project by hand (to the teacher's satisfaction) took most
of a semester of 2-hours-per-week class, & there wasn't supposed to be
homework.  Not quite useless, but not very broadening either.

We were strictly sex-segregated, as was typical in 1962-4.  Boys
had shop, girls had home ec.: alternate semesters sewing &
cooking.  I think we all liked cooking better, and not mostly 
because we ate the results -- the cooking teacher was more sympathetic
to difficulties, and there was never enough *time* to accomplish 
the assigned sewing projects unless everything went perfectly
(which never happened for me).

(I *think* that the sex-segregation mentioned in #18 was sort of mandated by
Illinois state law at the time - not that it was forbidden to teach boys
home ec or girls shop, but that shop for boys & home ec for girls was part
of the state-mandated curriculum.  I think.)

i'll wander and find my snickerdoodle recipe at home.  i made about 13.5
dozen the other day, so i know where it is...:)

why is it that they taste so good baked, but the dough is nasty?  :)

We had home ec but we didn't learn to cook anything productive... I seem to
recall meringues (sp?) and cakes... not very helpful in real life, although
I can make just about any type of dessert :)

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