Ginger-Snaps (No. 3.)

1 pint molasses.

1 teacup sugar.

1 teaspoonful ginger.

1 " allspice.

1 cup butter.

5 cups flour.

Roll thin and cut into small cakes. Bake in quick oven.

Aunt Margaret's Jumbles

1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar.

1 teacup milk.

5 eggs.

1/2 teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water.

1 " nutmeg.

Sufficient flour to make soft dough. Roll out, cut into shapes and sift sugar over them before they go into the oven.

Lemon Jumbles

1 egg. 1 teacupful sugar.

1/2 " butter.

3 teaspoonfuls milk.

2 small lemons, juice of two and grated rind of one

Mix rather stiff. Roll and cut out with a cake-cutter.

Ring Jumbles. 1 lb. butter.

1 " sugar.

4 eggs.

1 lb. flour, or enough to make out a soft dough

Wineglass (small) rose-water

Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks, then the rose-water, next half the flour, lastly the whites, stirred in very lightly, alternately with the remaining flour. Have ready a pan, broad and shallow, lined on the bottom with buttered paper. With a tablespoon form regular rings of the dough upon this, leaving a hole in the centre of each. Bake quickly, and sift fine sugar over them as soon as they are done.

You may substitute lemon or vanilla for the rose-water.

Mrs. M.'s Jumbles. 1 Cup Sugar

1 " butter.

1/2 " sour cream.

1 egg.

1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.

Nutmeg to taste.

Flour for soft dough.

Bake in rings, as directed in previous receipt.

Almond Jumbles

1 lb. sugar. 1/2 " flour, 1/4 " butter.

1 teacup "loppered" milk. 5 eggs.

2 tablespoonfuls rose-water.

3/4 lb. almonds, blanched and chopped small, but not pounded. 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water.

Cream butter, and sugar; stir in the beaten yolks, the milk, the flour, and the rose-water, the almonds, lastly the beaten whites very lightly and quickly. Drop in rings or round cakes upon buttered paper, and bake immediately.

You may substitute grated cocoanut, or the chopped kernels of white walnuts, for the almonds, in which case add a little salt.

Currant Cakes

1 lb. flour. 1/2 " butter. 3/4 " sugar. 4 eggs.

i lb. currants, well washed and dredged. i teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water, 1/2 lemon, grated rind and juice. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon,

Drop from a spoon upon well buttered paper, lining a baking-pan. Bake quickly.

Drop Sponge-Cakes

1/2 lb. powdered sugar. 1/4 " flour.

4 eggs - yolks and whites separate, and beaten very stiff. 1 lemon - all the juice, and half the grated rind.

Drop upon buttered paper, not too near together. Try one, and if it runs, beat the mixture some minutes longer hard, adding a very little flour. Your oven should be very quick, and the cakes a delicate yellow brown.