"Sugar and spice, and everything nice.'

Date Bars

Sift one and one-half cups Hour with two teaspoons baking powder and one-half teaspoon salt. Mix with one cup chopped nuts, one package sliced dates. To three well beaten eggs, add one cup sugar. Combine mixtures. Bake in shallow pan in slow oven thirty to forty minutes, or until done when tested with straw. While hot cut into oblongs. Roll in powdered sugar. Mrs. S. Heidenrich.

Brownies

Mix one cup sugar, one-quarter cup melted butter, one unbeaten egg, two squares chocolate or two tablespoons cocoa, three-quarters teaspoon vanilla, one-half cup flour, one-half cup walnuts. Bake in moderate oven (275°) thirty minutes. Remove from pan. Cut while hot.

Margaret N. White.

Cookies

Cream one-half cup butter (or one-half cup Crisco with which use one-half teaspoon salt), gradually add one cup sugar, one well beaten egg, one-third cup warm water in which one-half teaspoon baking soda has been dissolved, two cups flour sifted with one teaspoon baking powder, chopped nuts and raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls on buttered cooky sheet. Bake ten minutes in hot oven.

Mrs. Cecil A. Brown.

Almond Cookies

Cream three-quarters cup butter, one cup other shortening. Add one cup light brown sugar, one cup granulated sugar, three well beaten eggs, one-half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking soda sifted with four and one-half cups flour, one-quarter pound blanched almonds. Make into roll. Allow to stand in refrigerator or cool place over night. Slice. Bake.

Mrs. H. N. Tolles.

Aunt Annie's Ginger Cookies

One cup lard or butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, two cups molasses, one cup cream or sour milk, six cups flour, two teaspoons ginger, one teaspoon baking soda. Drop from spoon on greased pans. Mrs. Shaner.

Brown Sugar Cookies

Two cups brown sugar; one cup butter; four eggs; one teaspoon each baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, vanilla; flour to make soft dough. Roll. Cut. Bake.

Mrs. J. R. Fulton.

Chocolate Cookies

One cup brown sugar, one-half cup melted shortening, one egg, one-half cup milk, two squares melted chocolate, two cups flour, two rounding teaspoons baking powder, nuts, vanilla. Drop from spoon. Frost with one cup powdered sugar, one heaping tablespoon cocoa, melted butter size of walnut, vanilla. Add milk slowly to desired thickness.

Mildred A. Gould.

Chocolate Ice Box Cookies

Cream one-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar. Add one egg, one-half teaspoon salt, two squares melted chocolate, one-half cup milk, two and one-half cups flour which has been sifted with three teaspoons baking powder. Mix well. Shape into roll. Chill for several hours. Cut into slices. Bake in hot oven about ten minutes.

Mrs. Jules Escheman.

Date Cookies

Mix one package quartered dates and one cup walnuts. To two stiffly beaten egg whites add one cup sugar. Combine. Drop from spoon on floured pan. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes. - Mrs. D. A. Hill.