Grandma Jobes’ Orange Cookies

This time of year puts me in a mood for baking. Simon is at a really fun age and loves being involved, if I don’t pull a chair up to the counter for him he does it himself. Unfortunately last week he fell of a chair and split his lip open on the back of the chair as he fell – I need to find a safer solution. For now I am standing really close. Anyway, around this time of year we like to make Grandma Jobes’s Orange cookies. Great Grandma Jobes was a marvelous cook, baker, and professional candy maker. Many of her recipes live on but this one is a favorite of all the grand kids, great grand kids, and now in Simon’s case great great grand kids.

Orange cookies are a cakey style cookie and require both the zest and juice of an orange. I showed Simon how to zest and orange and let him have a try, though it was a bit challenging for him to hold both the orange and the grater at the same time.
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The juicing part was a bit easier

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Now I warned him not to try and eat an orange with the peal still on it but sometimes experience is the best teacher.

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I intended to get a picture of him eating a cookies but he inhaled it so fast it didn’t happen so you will just have to imagine it.

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poor cookie, doesn’t know what’s coming.

If you would like to try these at home the recipe is as follows:

Grandma Jobes’ Orange Cookies

Cream together:

  • 1 Cup shortening (I use butter)
  • 1 ½ Cup brown sugar
  • Add 2 eggs
  • ¼ Cup orange juice
  • 1 Tablespoon grated orange peel
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

In separate bowl sift together

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Blend cream mixture and flour mixture together with 1 cup of sour milk.
Make sour milk with

  • 1 tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice to
  • 1 cup of milk

Batter will be very soft.

drop onto cookie sheet by the spoon full

Bake at 350* for 15 minutes.

When cooled frost with orange frosting.

Frosting

  • 1 pound of powered sugar
  • ½ stick of butter
  • 2 Tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
  • I also add a little half and half for smooth consistency.
good cooking! if you make them send me a photo of you or your kiddos enjoying them.
-Emily

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4 Comments

  1. Hey Emily…Simon is wearing an Alaska grown T-shirt..we also have them, my cousin and family live in Valdez, AK. And yes, work on the pipeline. Why do you have the T’s? 🙂

    Oh…love the photos. We have a chair that is practically a permanent fixture in our kitchen for Lacy.

  2. Faye

    What a beautiful tribute to grandma. Her memory lives on in thousands of ways.

  3. I THOUGHT I remembered you were from AK, but was not positive:) Is there any other way to pronounce Val-DEEEZ?:) Also my aunt and uncle also live there as well. My cousin married someone who works on the pipeline so although she always talked about moving away, love kept her:) Her dad also works on the pipeline, different part though. I’ve been up there about 4 times. Love it.

  4. cindy

    i am so trying these! a thought for simon (poor guy fell off the stool) i never had the space in my house for these.. but friends i have swear by them instead of a stool or chair… (if the link doesnt work go to onestepahead and search for The Kitchen Helper) http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=535140&cmSource=Search