If your cookies are inclined to burn, bake them on the pans turned bottom side up.

Place cookies in pans with a pancake turner.

Cookies take but a few minutes to bake.

Place cookies while warm in a cloth in a covered jar.

Chocolate Cookies

Use Cocoanut Cooky recipe, with the exception of changing cup of cocoanut to one cupful of melted chocolate.

Cocoanut Cookies

1/2 cupful sugar

1/2 cupful butter

1/4 cupful milk

1 cupful grated cocoanut

1/2 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful lemon flavoring 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 cupful flour

Cream butter and sugar, add milk, cocoanut, salt, flavoring, and baking powder stirred in with the sifted flour. Roll thin, cut out and bake.

Fruit Cookies

Use recipe for Cocoanut Cookies, substituting chopped fruit for cocoanut.

Place them when cold in a jar with paraffin paper between each layer.

Ginger Cookies

2 cupfuls molasses 1 cupful butter 1 cupful sugar 1/2 cupful sour milk

2 eggs

1 tablespoonful ginger

1 teaspoonful soda flour

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in little water, ginger, and flour enough for dough to roll thin. Cut and bake in buttered pans in quick oven.

Ginger Snaps

1 cupful molasses 1/2 cupful sugar 1/2 cupful butter

1 tablespoonful ginger 1 teaspoonful soda flour

Heat the molasses and stir in the sugar, add softened butter, soda dissolved in little water, ginger, and sufficient flour to make a thin dough. Roll, cut, and bake in buttered pans in quick oven, being careful not to burn.

Oatmeal Cookies

1 cupful sugar 1 cupful butter 1 cupful sour milk 3 cupfuls flour 3 cupfuls oatmeal

2 eggs

1 teaspoonful nutmeg 1 teaspoonful cinnamon 1 teaspoonful soda pinch of salt

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in little water, salt, spices, flour and oatmeal alternately. Roll and cut, or drop from a dessert spoon on buttered tins to bake.

1 tablespoonful butter

2 tablespoonfuls sugar 2 tablespoonful milk 1/2 cupful flour

1 egg

1/2 teaspoonful baking powder pinch of salt

2 cupfuls chopped peanuts

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, milk, salt, peanuts, and baking powder sifted in with the flour. Roll thick and cut, or drop on buttered tins from a teaspoon.

Any preferred nuts may be used.

Sugar Cookies

2 cupfuls sugar

1 1/2 cupfuls sour milk

1 cupful butter

2 eggs flour caraway seeds or flavoring 1 1/2 tablespoonfuls boiling water 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 teaspoonful soda

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, milk, soda dissolved in the boiling water, any desired flavoring, and baking powder sifted with flour enough to make dough roll out soft and thin.

Cut in any desired shape.