On this New Year’s Eve, my blog posting will be rather simple and brief as I share with you the Tuck featured postcard and two cookie recipes.

Both of the cookie recipes are rather simple to make and one is actually a no-bake recipe. Each recipe will be shown via an image of my original copies and I will type them out as well.

One of our local TV channels used to run the Mr. Food segments. Periodically, during the 1980s, I would send in for a copy of the recipe being made on the show by sending in a self-addressed stamped envelope.

One of those recipes, from 1984, was for “Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy Cookies” which I am sharing in this blog. It had been kept in that same return envelope all these years. I honestly can’t recall if I have ever actually made them.

The “Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy Cookies” recipe follows:

Mix together with wooden spoon:
1 Cup Peanut Butter
2 Sticks margarine/butter, melted
1 lb box of 10x Confectionery Sugar
1 Cup Crushed Graham Crackers (or crumbs)

Put the mixture onto a well-greased cookie sheet and pour over it a 12 oz. bag of melted chocolate morsels. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. Remove and slice into 2″x2″ squares. Leave in pan and put back in refrigerator. Serve cold.

The other recipe that I am sharing today is another one from my 8th grade Homemaking class folder, as mentioned in a recent blog.

This recipe is for “Chocolate No-Bake Cookies”. My mom and I made these cookies quite often back in those days (you might tell by the condition of my original copy). They are tasty and very easy to make. I think a wooden spoon was probably used to make these as well.

“Chocolate No-Bake Cookies”
Cover cookie sheet with wax paper.

Into a saucepan put:
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Stick margarine/butter (1/4 Cup)
1/4 Cup Cocoa
1/4 Cup Milk

Cook until the margarine/butter is melted and mixture starts to boil. Then boil for 1 minute (over medium heat).

Remove from heat and combine with:
1/4 Cup Peanut Butter
1-1/2 Cup Oats
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
pinch of Salt

Mix well and immediately drop by teaspoonfuls onto the wax paper. Let stand until cool and hard.

Enjoy!

My featured postcard is a Raphael Tuck & Sons’ antique postcard. There is no postmark and no writing on the reverse side. It would have belonged to either Grandma Julia (Moore) James or her daughter Aunt Etta (James) Hooper.

The front side of the postcard displays a couple changing the calendar over to January 1st and the printed greeting says “A Happy New Year”.

As printed by the publisher on the reverse side, this postcard was a “New Year Greetings” postcard Series No. 600. Also printed is “Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen”. This postcard was printed in Saxony (eastern Germany).

And so, I do wish to everyone a very Happy and Healthy New Year. In the year to come, may we each make an effort to spread more kindness and may that kindness be doubled in return.

Until next time…