Grandma's Recipes #25 - Corn Flakes Cookies

These aren't cookies I remember, but they do sound interesting.  I'm not a fan of raisins, but dried cranberries or cherries might work just as well.  Grandma didn't include baking temps or times, but I'd try 350 - 375 for 9 minutes to start and adjust from there.  She also didn't include mixing directions, so I included what I'd do in [gray brackets].

1 cup sugar
1/2 c lard
2 eggs
3 Tbsp sweet milk
2 c flour
1 c chopped raisins through food chopper
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla
Corn flakes

[In small bowl, combine four, soda, baking powder.  Cream sugar and lard.  Add eggs, vanilla, and sweetened condensed milk.  Slowly mix in flour mixture.  Stir in raisins.]  Spoon out cookie dough and roll in corn flakes.  Flatten a little and bake.

Grandma's Recipes #6 - Aggression Cookies

I'm guessing these are named Aggression Cookies because there are no instructions for how long to bake them or what temperature to bake them at.  This seems like it could cause a fair amount of Aggression.  They don't actually contain egg, so maybe they don't need to be baked?  I really don't know.  This is one of many such unintelligible gems in Grandma's recipe box.  3 cups of butter though.... this is one impression concoction.

Aggression Cookies
6 cups  Oatmeal
3 cups  Brown sugar
3 cups  Butter or 1/2 butter and 1/2 margarine
3 cups  Flour
1 Tblsp Baking soda

Combine all.

Grandma's Recipes #2 - Gingerbread Men

I've made these two Christmas's in a row.  The spice mix is intense and the cookies come out very molasses-forward, which is how I like my gingerbread but may be a little two spicy for some.  If you don't frost them, they definitely benefit from a little course sugar sprinkled over the top.  This recipe also makes a HUGE batch.  My standard size KitchenAid mixer can barely handle all the dough.  You may want to cut the recipe in half.  Also, please don't skip the lard and use butter.  They're just not the same.  Comments in [gray braces] are not in the original recipe.

I made mine into Ninja-bread men.  I don't know if Grandma would approve

Gingerbread men
1 cup melted lard
1 cup white sugar
1 cup dark molasses
2 eggs
1/2 cup hot water with 1 teaspoon [dissolved baking] soda
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1 Tsp [powdered ground] ginger
6 cups flour

[Cream lard, sugar, and molasses.  Add eggs one at a time. Slowly add water with dissolved soda and spices.  Beat in flour, one cup at a time.  Mixture will be thick]   If you make ginger men, chill it awhile [an hour or more] for better results.  Bake at 375 for 10 to 15 minutes.