Cookies

Two eggs, 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful sour cream, 1 cupful butter, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg. Flour sufficient to roll out. Mrs. T. F. Williams.

Potato Doughnuts

One and one-half cupfuls sugar, 5 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 1 cupful mashed potatoes, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 1 egg, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, a pinch of salt. Flavor to taste. Mix soft, roll, cut out and fry in hot lard.

Mrs. F. S. Clifton.

Fruit Cookies

One-half cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of butter, 1/2 cupful sweet milk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg, 3 tablespoonfuls English currants or chopped raisins. Mix soft and roll out using first enough flour to stiff, sufficiently cut out with a large cutter, wet the tops with milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in buttered tins in a quick oven. Mrs. E. C. W. Scruggs.

Chocolate Cookies

Cream 1 cupful butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 4 eggs beaten well. Add 1/2 teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little water. Add 3 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful chocolate.

Miss Elsa Ruschhaupt

Doughnuts

One cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful melted butter, a pinch of salt, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 eggs, nutmeg to taste. Don't mix hard. Have the lard hot.

Mrs. Leetta Coburn.

Fruit Drops

Cream 2 cupfuls sugar and 3/4 cupful butter, 1/4 cupful lard, 1/2 cupful sweet milk. Three eggs beaten separately, 3 cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, 1 cupful chopped raisins, 1 cupful nuts. Drop with a teaspoon into a well greased pan.

Mrs. Edna Donley.

Ginger Cookies

One cupful of brown sugar, 1 cupful of molasses, 1/2 cupful butter, 1/2 cupful lard, 1/2 tablespoonful ginger, 2 eggs, 6 tablespoonfuls vinegar, 2 tablespoonfuls soda dissolved in water. Just enough flour to handle dough easily.

Mrs. D. Donovan.

Rocks

One and one-half cupfuls brown sugar, 1 cupful butter or lard, 2 1/2 cupfuls flour, 3 well beaten eggs, 1 tablespoonful soda dissolved in boiling water, 1 cupful walnuts, 1 cupful chopped raisins. Drop in small spoonfuls or bake in gem pans. Mrs. F. S. Clifton.

Nut Crisps

One cupful sugar, 1/2 cupful butter, 1 egg beaten separately, 2 cupfuls rolled oats, 1 cupful nuts, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Drop from spoon or pan.

Miss Elsa Ruschhaupt

Sugar Cookies

Three cupfuls sugar, 2 cupfuls butter, 1 small cupful sour milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, flavor to taste. Flour to make a soft dough, roll very thin and bake in a quick oven. If desired brush cookies over with the yolks of egg, beaten tablespoonfuls milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 cupful chopped nuts. Flour sufficient to make as soft as with a little milk, then sprinkle sugar, cinnamon and chopped nuts on top. Mrs. W. C. Hauser.

Hot Cookies

Two cupfuls sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 cupful melted butter, 6 possible to handle. Bake in a quick oven.

Mrs. M. D. Pierce.

Rolled Oat Macaroons

Two and one-half cupfuls rolled oats, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 3 teaspoonfuls butter, 1 cupful sugar, 3 eggs beaten separately, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, add the well beaten yolks, then the rolled oats, salt, baking powder and vanilla. Add the whites beaten stiff. Drop on buttered pans not larger than 50-cent piece. Mrs. Geo. Dunn.

Edenkobers

Two eggs, 1 cupful sugar, 1/4 pound almonds pounded to a paste, 1/4 pound chopped citron, 1/4 pound candied lemon peel, 2 tablespoonfuls drained honey, 2 cupfuls flour, 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder. Mix to a paste, roll out and cut into small cakes. Bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. J. F. Williams.

Soft Gingerbread

One-half cupful sugar, 1 cupful molasses, 1/3 cupful shortening, lard or butter, 1 cupful boiling water, 1 even teaspoonful soda dissolved in water, 2 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful each ginger and cinnamon, 1 egg well beaten, 1 cupful raisins seeded and floured. Bake in a slow oven.

Mrs. E. E. Fix.

Hermit Cookies

1 cupful white sugar, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1 small teacupful butter, 3 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, pinch of salt. Flour to make soft batter. Roll and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. E. P. Conrad.