I'm not sure what ineffable quality the 1/2 cup of potato chips adds. Most likely, just the "that's crazy!" factor of telling people that your cookies have potato chips in them.
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World's Best Cookie
I don't buy into the hype.
Fruit Balls
Here's another "ball" recipe. (tee hee!) There are some similarities here to the Perkins' Vanilla Wafer Xmas Balls. They would look really nice next to each other, since the Perkins balls are white coconut and these are probably light brown. You could go really crazy with the coconut ones and use red- and green-dyed coconut.
Again, a great recipe for the ovenless.
Perkins' Vanilla Wafer Xmas Balls
It's completely juvenile, but the word "balls" makes me smirk. This is another recipe from the famed Perkins line.
Note to dorm dwellers and illegal squatters: no baking is required, and you can do the other melty bits on a hot plate or in the microwave.
Xmas Cookies
There are some mysteries here. I can't fathom the direction, "rub together like pie." Am I misreading the directive, or just not understanding it? Also, it would be weird to mix in the flour before beating in the egg, but the brackets seem to indicate that. Then again, when you make pie dough, you mix the dry ingredients and the butter first. In that case, though, the butter is mixed in ice cold and chunky. Here, I don't know if the butter is supposed to be cold or room temp. That could make an enormous difference in the recipe outcome. The "pie" aspect of the recipe might be telling you to do the dry stuff first, but I just can't imagine how eggs would mix into it well. Finally, it's your guess as to how long to bake them for. I'm guessing maybe 8-10 minutes. Betty, you were a little skimpy on the details. I have a feeling that she read this one to my Grandmother over the phone.
Can a baker shed more light on this recipe? I'd love to make it but there are a lot of "x" factors here. I'll bet they taste like egg nog.
Santa's Whiskers
I'm not sure how this would resemble Santa's whiskers. Are the finely chopped cherries supposed to be the blood from where he cut himself shaving?
Breakfast Cookies
Cookies. With bacon.
This reminds me of McDonald's McGriddle sandwich. Take two perfectly fine food items (in this case, cookies and bacon; in McD's case, pancakes and a breakfast sandwich) and combine them in a flavor calamity that is much, much worse than the sum of its parts.
Snickerdoodles
What is there to say? It's a recipe for Snickerdoodles.
I never really cared for Snickerdoodles. They always seem dry and crumbly to me. I'd rather just have a good sugar cookie.
Eva Hengel's Oatmeal Cookies
Is this a bar cookie? The 9x13 pan indication leads me to believe that this is the case; otherwise, why wouldn't you use a cookie sheet?
At first the proportions were throwing me off - it seems like there's almost no liquid. Then I realized that it's 1 cup of oleo, not 1 teaspoon (which would be a weird measurement for oleo, anyway). I don't know how one can make a c look like a t, but it kind of does, don't you think?
With the oats, chips, and nuts, this seems like a pretty hearty cookie. Throw in some raisins and have it for breakfast. Watch yourself gain 10 pounds in a month.
Grandma Army's Brown Sugar Cookies
This recipe is old. Grandma Army is my Grandma Mimi's mother, Catherine Armacost.
Update
My Aunt Phyllis tells me that Catherine is actually my Grandma Mimi's grandmother, and my great great grandmother, so this recipe is even older than I thought.
Update
My friend, Steph, took a photo of the cookies that I brought in for our company pitch-in:
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