Halloween Treats
Applesauce Cookies
- 1 cup warm un-sweetened applesauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp each salt and soda
- 1 tsp each cloves, allspice, cinnamon
- ¾ cup shortening
- 2 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup each raisins and nuts
Stir soda, sugar and shortening into warm applesauce. Sift spice with the flour. Mix. Bake.
– Mrs. P.V. Murray
From “Helping You Plan…A Treasure Chest of Good Things to Eat” published by The Ladies Aid of the United Methodist Church, Durango in 1935.
This recipe is included in the Animas City Cookie Book, a collection of cookie recipes from local heritage cookbooks and images from the Museum’s collection. Proceeds from the book benefit the La Plata County Historical Society and the Animas Museum. The cookie book is currently available for local pickup only at the Museum for $9.25 plus tax or at Maria's Bookshop. Contact the Museum for details.
Wet your whistle with an old-fashioned beverage. These are from 1910-20, and feature one that was just the thing to celebrate the end of WWI.
Armistice Punch
Dissolve one and one-half cup of sugar with one cup of hot water, adding one cup of orange juice and one-half cup of lemon juice. Strain through a fine sieve into a punch bowl over cracked ice. When ready to serve, add one pint of ginger ale and one pint of Lithia (sparkling water today). Put in one orange sliced into thin slices and some preserved cherries.
Overland Punch
Put one pint of white grape juice, and one quart of ginger ale on ice until very cold. Mix together when ready to serve.
Lorraine Punch
Take the juice of half a grapefruit, one cup of grape juice, one cup of cider, and four tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix well, and put in punch bowl with plenty of ice, and when ready to serve, add two bottles of Seltzer.