Big-Ass Cookies from an Old Geezer Recipe

After decorating our walls with vintage cookbook covers, we thought we should maybe actually read some of these geezer recipes. One of these old timers was a recipe for "Old Fashion Bakers Dozen Cookies." Now.... the words "old fashion" in a cookbook from 1940 leads me to believe that this recipe was created by people dwelling in caves, hunting and gathering (baking ingredients AND buffalo.) 

Giant cookie (notice cute wall behind giant cookie)

Old Fashion Bakers Dozen Cookies

Makes 13 BIG ASS cookies( or 24 normal people cookies)

3 cups flour

1 1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

6 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon grated lemon rind

Combine flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and salt together. Give it a lil' stir and set aside. 

Cream together shortening, butter and sugar. Add eggs, milk and lemon rind. 

Use a wooden spoon to stir flour into butter mix

Take 1/3 cup batter and make into ball. Put on lightly greased cookie sheet, and flatten slightly with bake of a spatula. Repeat until cookie sheet is full. 

Bake on lightly greased baking sheet at 350 for 15 minutes, or until edges are brown. 

(be sure to space these guys out, they are HUGE!

While cookies are cooling, do some sit-ups, do 10 minutes of yoga, just do something to burn off the 3240 calories you are about to binge on, because these cookies are AWESOME