Farm Journal's Best-Ever Cookies

What do you like best? Rich, fudgy brownies loaded with pecans? Raisin-studded oatmeals still warm from the oven? Brown sugary chocolate chips or spicy gingersnaps? All these and more fill the pages of this treasury of more than 400 recipes selected by Farn Journal Food Editors as the best cookies from country kitchens. You'll find many wonderful variations of your own particular favorites. And each cookie here is perfect, whether you're packing a lunch box, giving a gift or baking cookies for a bake sale. For extra-special occasions, there are such party spectaculars as tiny lemon-filled meringues, brittle-crisp lace cookies and buttery spritz. And no cookie book would be complete without a festive selection of Christmas favorites. The cookies here are ones that have become cherished holiday traditions in many farm homes, and you'll love them, too. You'll also discover extra-nutritious treats and cookies easy enough for a child to make - as well as no-bake and microwave specialities for days when you're in a hurry. To make choosing a recipe easier, each one is identified with a symbol that tells you what kind of cookie it is: bar, drop, molded, presed, rolled or refrigerator. So what will it be? Heirloom Brown Cookies? Caramel-Chocolate Bars? Or how about Jumbo Oatmeal-Peanut Butter Cookies?