Made with cream cheese.
Compare this version from the August 11, 1942 edition of The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina:
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Chocolate Bit Cookies
(Three dozen)
1/2 cup fat Cream fat and add sugar. Lightly mix in rest of ingredients. Chill dough. Drop portions onto greased baking sheet. Flatten each cooky. Bake 10 minutes in moderate oven. |
From the box of J.L. from Westborough, Massachusetts.
Chocolate-Bit Cookies
1 cup shortening
1-1/4 cup sugar
1 (3 oz.) cream cheese
1 tsp. orange flavoring
1/4 tsp. lemon
2 cups flour
2/3 [tsp.?] salt
1 (6 oz.) chocolate bits
[2 eggs, beaten]
Cream shortening, sugar, and cheese. Add orange, lemon to eggs; add the mixture to creamed mixture; mix.
Sift flour with salt into mixture. Add chocolate bits.
Grease cookie sheet. Drop by teaspoonfuls. 350 degrees, 15-16 minutes.
From the recipe file of Jane Le[ttene]y