This section is from the book "The Arizona Cook Book", by Williams Public Library Association. Also available from Amazon: Arizona Cook Book.
Three cups oat meal, two cups flour, one and one-half cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup raisins chopped, four table spoons sweet milk, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking powder, two eggs. Add chopped nut meats if you wish, as they greatly improve. These are very fine. - Mrs. Henskey, Mulligan, Mich.
One-quarter cupful granulated sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one beaten egg, one and one-half cupfuls Quaker oats, one-half teaspoonful baking powder, one quarter teaspoonful salt. Cream sugar and butter, add the beaten egg. Stir baking powder and salt in the oatmeal, and add this to the sugar, butter and egg. Mix lightly and drop one teaspoonful in a greased pan. Bake quickly in a hot oven. - Miss Charlotte Wickstrom, Hartford, Conn.
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter and lard mixed, one half cup of sour milk with one half teaspoon of soda, two eggs, three cups of oat meal and enough white flour to roll. Bake in quick oven. - Mrs. Jatrick Johnston, Williams, Ariz.
Two cups sugar, one cup shortening (half butter and lard), one cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon salt, one and one-half teaspoons cinnamon, one teaspoon soda, three eggs, two cups raisins, one cup nuts, four cups oat meal (chopped fine), three cups flour. Drop from teaspoon on to greased pan. - Mrs. Clarence J. Spellmire, Winslow, Ariz.
One cup lard or butter, one cup of sugar, two cups rolled oats, two eggs, four tablespoons sour milk, three-quarter teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon salt, two cups flour, one cup raisins. Drop from spoon on buttered paper. - Mrs. H. C Saunders, Williams, Ariz.
Two cups sugar, one cup lard, three eggs, three cups milk, one cup raisins, one teaspoon cinnamon, two cups oatmeal, little flour, two spoons baking powder. - Mrs. James Dalton, Williams, Ariz.
Two cups of granulated sugar, one cup of butter, four eggs, two cups of raisins chopped fine, four cups of oat meal, heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, four cups of flour, teaspoonful of soda, dissolve soda in just a little hot water. Roll thin and bake in quick oven. - Mrs. Langston, Monroe, Mich.
Two one-half cups H. O., oatmeal, two eggs, one tablespoon melted butter, one cup granulated sugar, one teaspoon vanilla, two teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt mix dry ingredients together, add beaten egg and butter. Drop tea-spoonful in a place two inches apart on buttered tin. Bake in slow oven. - Mrs. E. M. Victor, New York.
One cup of sugar, three one-half cups oat meal, one one-half cups flour, one cup boiling water, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon salt, one cup lard. Roll thin and bake. - Mrs. E. H. Ayer, Detroit, Mich.
Two cups rolled oats in one cup sour milk while preparing, two eggs, one cup sugar, one scant cup Cottolene, two cups flour, one teaspoon of soda, one cup currants or raisins, one cup nut meats. Bake in greased gem pans in quick oven. - Mrs. J. F. Daggs, Williams, Ariz.
Two eggs well beaten, three-quarter cup of butter, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in three-quarter cup of sour milk, two cups quaker oats, fluor to roll out, roll very thin. Cook one pound dates and one cup of sugar together and when nearly cool, spread between two cookies and bake. - Mrs. Tefft, Anacortes, Wash.
Two teacups sugar, one teacup lard or Cottolene, three eggs, one teaspoonful cinnamon, three teacups milk (sweet milk), one teaspoonful baking soda, one teacup raisins, two teacups oat meal. Flour to mix stiff and drop in dripping pan and bake. - Mrs. James Dalton, Williams, Ariz.
 
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