This Cottage Cheese Cookies recipe comes from a typewritten card filed under Cookies in My Mom’s Recipe Box. Its grouped ingredients and short original directions are preserved here without adding steps, portions, or a yield that do not appear on the card.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
Combine & beat:
- 2 cups margarine
- 3½ cups sugar
- 4 tsp. vanilla
- 4 eggs
Add & mix:
- 2 cups cottage cheese
- 5½ cups flour
- 1 cup cocoa
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 cup nuts
Directions
Chill dough. Roll in powdered sugar (optional). Bake at 350 deg. 8-10 mins.
Preservation Notes
This recipe is preserved on an aged typewritten card. The card groups its ingredients under “Combine & beat:” and “Add & mix:” and leaves a large blank area beneath the brief directions.
Notes From the Original
The original does not specify how to portion or shape the chilled dough, and it does not provide a yield. Those details have not been supplied or inferred. Rolling in powdered sugar is explicitly marked optional on the card.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
