Ingredients
1 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Cup butter
1 egg
1/2 Cup Sour Milk
1/4 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
2 squares baking chocolate, melted
1 1/2 Cup flour
1 Cup chopped nuts
Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg and sour milk. Sift flour, soda, and baking powder together and add to creamed ingredients. Add melted cooled chocolate and nuts. Drop teaspoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet. 325 degree oven
Icing
1 egg beaten
1 Tablespoon cream
1 3/4 Cups Powder Sugar
1 square chocolate, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cooks in these times often substituted. Bacon grease for butter,some chicory for coffee, bread crumbs for nuts. Flour came in several grades. There was one designated as "cake flour". A white, lighter type than the grayer coarser ground everyday dredging flour. This along with guess measures often brought unusual creations.
This is the only choc. cookie recipe that I could find that even mentioned bacon grease.
Never any icing that I can remember. Just the humps of cookie from which I'd eat the edges first (and sometimes only just the edges ... =)