Jumbles

2 Cups Flour 1/2 Cup Butter 1/2 Cup Sugar

1/4 Teaspoon Nutmeg

1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla or Lemon

3 Eggs

Work butter into flour, sugar and eggs, well beaten; add nutmeg, vanilla or lemon extract; mix well; roll out to the thickness of about 1/8 inch thick; sprinkle powdered sugar over the dough; cut it with a biscuit or cake cutter, so that there will be a hole in center; lay them on flat tin plates and bake 10 minutes in quick oven.

Billy Goat Cookies

3 Cups Flour

1 Cup Butter

1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar

3 Eggs

3 Cup Water (scant)

1 Cup Raisins, Chopped Fine 1 Cup Walnuts, Chopped Fine 1 Teaspoon Soda (scant), sifted In Flour

Plain Cookies

2 1/2 Cups Flour 1 1/2 Cups Sugar 1 Tablespoon Milk

3/4 Cup Butter

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

3 Eggs

Cream butter and sugar; add beaten eggs, sifted flour with baking powder and milk; roll out thin and cut in circles.

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Excelsior Cookies

Flour 1 Cup Milk 1 Cup Butter

2 Cups Sugar

3 Eggs

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

Cream together, adding enough flour to make a soft dough; roll thin, sprinkle; with sugar and bake.

Cocoanut Drop Cookies

2 Cups Flour

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup Milk, Sour

1 Teaspoon Soda

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1 Box ( 1/4 Lb.) Cocoanut

Mix well and drop from spoon on greased pans.

Molasses Cookies

Flour 1 Quart Molasses 1 Cup Lard

2 Ounces Soda 1 Gill Water

Put molasses, water, soda and lard in a bowl; mix them together; add flour enough to make a nice dough suitable to roll out and cut; wash with milk or water on top.

Molasses Cookies are very common, but they are not easy to make, the reason being that there is no rule you can work by which will answer in all cases. All molasses does not work alike. Some kinds will bear more water than others, and the weather has to be taken into consideration. You can use more water in cold weather than in warm, at times 1/2 water, 1/2 molasses. Be very careful and not get dough too stiff and do not work more than necessary to mix.

Shamrocks

2 1/2 Cups Flour

1 Cup Sugar

1/2 Cup Milk

1/3 Cup Shortening

2 Teaspoons Ginger

1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1 Teaspoon Salt

1 Egg

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, then egg, well beaten, then the milk; mix flour, baking powder, salt and ginger and sift; chill thoroughly and roll out rather thick; cut with a cutter shaped to represent a three-leaved clover; bake in rather quick oven; cool and cover with frosting colored green, or cover with shredded cocoanut colored green; if cocoanut is used, brush over cookies very lightly with white of egg diluted with 1 tablespoon cold water and beaten together; to color cocoanut, dilute green coloring with a little water, turn into shallow dish, add cocoa-nut and stir with silver fork until cocoanut is evenly colored; dry before using.