Cocoanut Drops

1 can Borden's Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 pound shredded cocoanut

Method :

Add as much of the cocoanut to the milk as will mix in. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased tin and bake from twelve to fifteen minutes or until brown. Two squares of chocolate may be added if desired.

Ruth Rosengren, Xi.

Ginger Cookies

1 cup sugar 1 cup lard 1 cup molasses

2 teaspoons soda (in the water) 2 teaspoons ginger (or 1 of ginger, 1 of cinnamon and 1/2 of cloves)

1 cup boiling water

1 egg enough flour to roll out

Harriet Wilson Davy, Xi.

Cornflake Cookies

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup chopped nuts

4 cups cornflakes 1 pinch salt

Method :

Beat eggs and sugar together, add other ingredients and stir together well. Shape on buttered tin and bake in hot oven about eight minutes. Cup of cocoanut may be used instead of nuts.

Ruth Rosengren, Xi.

Ice Box Cookies

1 pound butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 3 eggs 5 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon soda 1/2. teaspoon salt 1 cup nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method :

Make in rolls and put into icebox. When cold, slice off thin, as many slices as are wanted to bake at a time. Will keep in the icebox two weeks. Very large recipe.

Elizabeth Kuehmsted Moore, Nu. Edith F Cloyes, Omicron.

Boston Cookies

1 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

3 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda in 1 1/2 teaspoons hot water

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup chopped raisins

Method :

Drop spoonfuls on buttered pan and bake.

Idamay Schoonover, Xi.

Rocks

1 cup brown sugar 2/3 cup butter 1/2 cup flour

2 well-beaten eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder dissolved in a little hot water

1 pound English walnuts

1 pound chopped dates

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method :

Dredge the nuts and dates with flour. Mix ingredients well. Drop from teaspoon on buttered tins and bake.

Harriet Wilson Davy, Xi.

Butter Cookies

3 cups flour 1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1/2 teaspoon soda vanilla

Method :

Rub flour and butter together as for pie crust. Beat eggs to a foam and add them and soda, sugar and vanilla. Roll very thin.

Edna Loomis Stockdale, Xi.

Fruit Cookies

1 12 cups sugar 3/4 cup shortening 2 or 3 eggs . 1 teaspoon soda

1 cup chopped dates or raisins

1 cup chopped nuts 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves

Marion Perkins Gemmill, Xi.

Walnut Wafers

2 eggs

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup nuts, cut fine

Method :

Beat eggs very light. Add sugar; then remaining dry ingredients, sifted together and nuts. Drop half teaspoonfuls on greased tins and bake in a very moderate oven until light brown.

Esther Leas, Marion Crater Davy, Xi.

Indians

1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup flour

2 squares chocolate (bitter)

2 eggs

1 cup chopped nut meats

Method :

Bake in shallow pan. Cut in squares.

Mildred Kelley Hoag, Upsilon Alpha.

White-Faced Date Slices

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

3 eggs

1 cup nuts

1 cup dates pinch salt

2 teaspoons vanilla

Method :

Bake in slow oven about forty minutes. Cut in strips and roll powdered sugar.

Lydia Kitterman Kirkpatrick,

Dorothy Smith, Xi.