Vintage Friday: Roaring 20s Honey Mace Cookies by Flossie Benton Rogers
By Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen (List of Koehler Images) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsDelicious cookies are the bee’s knees! Today we consider a lesser known spice for our jar full of goodness. Mace comes from the same evergreen tree as the more familiar nutmeg. Whereas nutmeg is the pit of the fruit, mace is derived from the outer covering of the nutmeg seed. Mace has a flavor and aroma similar to nutmeg, but stronger. Like nutmeg, mace is used in savory dishes as well as desserts. It is a key ingredient in these cookies popular in the 1920s, from a Mrs. Wilson’s cookbook. It’s hard to believe the Roaring 20s is almost a hundred years ago now.
Honey Mace Cookies
Ingredients: 3/4 cup honey 3/4 cup brown sugar 7 tablespoons shortening 1 egg 3 3/4 cups flour 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 cup finely chopped nuts 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon mace
Directions: Mix honey, brown sugar, shortening, and egg in a mixing bowl. Beat with a large spoon until well blended. Add flour, raisins, nuts, baking powder, and mace. Roll out dough and cut into rounds. Bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes.
I love to make cookies for my Snickerdoodles. What are your favorite cookies?
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What a strange thought that the roaring twenties were almost 100 years ago! I have to admit that I’ve never heard of mace before, but the cookies sound good. My favorite cookies are those my relatives made around the holidays….filled horns and two types of Italian cookies which I can’t even spell, LOL. The latter two recipes have been lost (or, at least, no one can make them like my great aunt did), but when I think of them, it’s always with fondness and wonderful memories of times past!
I know– the idea that the 1920s was almost a hundred years ago blows my mind too. Creme filled horns? Those must have been wonderful. I’m so glad you have the special memories of your aunt and her cookies. I wonder what spices were in those Italian cookies.
How lucky your grandsons are!
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I haven’t made, except of pancakes, nothing sweet lately.
My all time favorites are cheese pies. Both my mother and grandmother used to make some delicious ones.
Carmen, you mean cheesecake? That’s my son’s all time favorite. He loves cheesecake. If I may ask, what type of cheese did your mother and grandmother put in them? We use cream cheese, but I have heard of cheesecakes with ricotta cheese as well. Instead of sugar, I usually like to use stevia or splenda.
I mean pie – that is pastry sheets and the filling is made of cottage cheese mixed with eggs and sugar. I like them more salty but there are others made with sweeter cheese. I think cheesecake means something else. We have those too but with a different type of dough.
What a strange thought that the roaring twenties were almost 100 years ago! I have to admit that I’ve never heard of mace before, but the cookies sound good. My favorite cookies are those my relatives made around the holidays….filled horns and two types of Italian cookies which I can’t even spell, LOL. The latter two recipes have been lost (or, at least, no one can make them like my great aunt did), but when I think of them, it’s always with fondness and wonderful memories of times past!
I know– the idea that the 1920s was almost a hundred years ago blows my mind too. Creme filled horns? Those must have been wonderful. I’m so glad you have the special memories of your aunt and her cookies. I wonder what spices were in those Italian cookies.
How lucky your grandsons are!
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I haven’t made, except of pancakes, nothing sweet lately.
My all time favorites are cheese pies. Both my mother and grandmother used to make some delicious ones.
Carmen, you mean cheesecake? That’s my son’s all time favorite. He loves cheesecake. If I may ask, what type of cheese did your mother and grandmother put in them? We use cream cheese, but I have heard of cheesecakes with ricotta cheese as well. Instead of sugar, I usually like to use stevia or splenda.
I mean pie – that is pastry sheets and the filling is made of cottage cheese mixed with eggs and sugar. I like them more salty but there are others made with sweeter cheese. I think cheesecake means something else. We have those too but with a different type of dough.
Oh, that sounds delicious, Carmen!