Mrs. B.'s Cookies+

6 eggs, whites and yolks separately. 1 cup butter. 3 cups sugar.

Flour to make batter just stiff enough to be moulded with well-floured hands. Flavor with lemon. Make into round cakes and bake in a quick oven.

Small Sugar Cakes

1 heaping teacup of sugar.

3/4 teacup of butter.

1/4 teacup sweet milk.

2 eggs, well beaten.

2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar.

Flour sufficient to enable you to roll out the dough.

1 saltspoonful salt.

Nutmeg and cinnamon to taste.

Cut in round cakes and bake quickly.

New Year's Cakes. (Very nice.)+

l 1/4 lb. sugar. 1 lb. butter. 1/2 pint cold water. 3 eggs.

3 lbs. flour.

1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.

4 tablespoonfuls caraway seed sprinkled through the flour.

Rub the butter, or, what is better, chop it up in the flour; dissolve the sugar in the water; mix all well with the beaten eggs, cut in square cakes, or with oval mould, and bake quickly.

"Mother's" Cookies

1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar.

3 eggs, well beaten.

1/4 teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water. 1 " nutmeg.

Flour to make soft dough, just stiff enough to roll out. Try two cups to begin with, working it in gradually. Cut in round cakes, stick a raisin or currant in the top of each, and bake quickly.

Coriander Cookies+

1 cup butter.

3 cups sugar.

1 cup " loppered " milk or cream.

4 eggs.

6 cups flour, or just enough to stiffen into a Tollable paste.

2 tablespoonfuls coriander seed (ground or beaten). 1 " soda, dissolved in boiling water.

If you use sweet milk, add two teaspoonfuls cream-tartar. You may substitute caraway for the coriander-seed.

rice-flour Cookies. . 1/2 lb. ground rice. 1/2 " rice-flour, dried and sifted. 1 " powdered sugar. 1/2 " butter. 4 eggs.

Juice and half the grated rind of a lemon. 1 tablespoonful orange-flower water.

Beat yolks and whites very light; then put the sugar with the yolks. Beat ten minutes, add the orange-flower water and lemon; lastly, the flour and whites alternately. Beat the mixture half an hour. Bake immediately in patty-pans. Eat while fresh.

Molasses Cookies (Good.)

1 cup butter.

2 cups molasses.

1 teaspoonful cloves. 1 tablespoonful ginger.

Sufficient flour to make soft dough. Mould with the hands into small cakes, and bak'3 in a steady rather than quick oven, as they are apt to burn.

Ginger-Snaps. (No. 1.)

1 cup butter.

1 " molasses.

1 " sugar.

3/4 " sweet milk.

1 teaspoonful saleratus.

Flour for tolerably stiff dough.

Ginger-Snaps (No. 2.)

1 large cup butter and lard mixed.

1 coffee-cup sugar.

1 cup molasses.

1/2 " water.

1 tablespoonful ginger.

1 " cinnamon.

1 teaspoonful cloves.

1 " soda dissolved in hot water.

Flour for pretty stiff dough.

Roll out rather thinner than sugar cakes, and bake quickly. These ginger-snaps will keep for weeks, if locked up.