Excellent Cookies

One cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 3 eggs, ½ cup sour cream. 1 cup chopped raisins, 1½ cups chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon vanilla. ½. teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda. Flour to mix soft dough. - Jennie Baker.

Cookies

One cup butter, 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon milk, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, and flavoring to taste. Cream the butter and sugar, add the milk and eggs beaten light. Then add the flour and enough more to roll out if necessary. Roll a little at a time and cut out. Bake in quick oven. - Mrs. M. A. Fuller.

Fruit Cookies

Three eggs, 1 cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 cup chopped raisins and a little citron. - Mrs. Harry Raney.

Christmas Cookies

One pound butter. 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1 cupful of powdered coriander seed, some mixed spices. Mix in a stiff dough and roll out thin. Bake, place in an earthen jar, where they will keep 6 months.

- Mrs. J. R. Eldred.

Cream Cookies

Half pound of butter, 1 pint of cream, enough flour for a dough which can easily be worked by the hands. Cream the butter, then add the cream, then the flour. Put in a cool place over night. Roll out thin and form in figures "8's" about 2 or 3 inches long. Then roll through sugar and bake in an ungreased pan. - Mrs. Katz.

Fruit Cookies

One cup butter. 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon thick sweet cream, 1 pound currants, washed and thoroughly dried, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, flavor. Add flour for soft dough. - Mrs. T. F. Heth.

Oatmeal Cookies

Four teacups of oatmeal, 3 teacups of flour, 2 teacups of sugar, 2 teacups of seeded raisins, 2-3 teacup of butter, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of soda in ½ cup of water, 3 eggs, and a pinch of salt. - Mrs. W. W. Heth.

Hermits Or Fruit Cookies

Two cups brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup raisins chopped, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves,¼ cup warm water, flour to mix soft. Sprinkle sugar on top and bake. - Mrs. I. D. Roach.

Molasses Cookies

One cup of sugar. 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup of shortening, yolks of 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of ginger, 1 teaspoonful of soda. - Mrs. W. W. Bentley.

Cookie Recipe

One egg, 1½ cups sugar, 1 cup of lard, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, a little salt, a little soda, 1 cup sweet milk, flour to mix into a dough. Use any flavor desired.

P. S. A little salt. I use about ½ teaspoon and about ¼ teaspoon of soda. You use this because the lard has no salt.

- Mrs. Altena Wolgamot.

Tennis Cookies

Two eggs, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspoon of soda in ½ cup sweet milk, spice or vanilla and flour to roll thin. To be successful, take small amount of dough at one time and roll until you can see the board through the dough. The soda prevents the cookie from wrinkling as it bakes.

- Mrs. E. Vehslage Rice.

Ida Mae Cookies

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 4 eggs not beaten, 4 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Chopped nuts may be added if desired. - Mrs. Harry Raney.

Oatmeal Cookies

Three-fourths cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup chopped nuts, 2 cups oatmeal, 2 eggs not beaten, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon salt, ¾ teaspoon soda in 2 cups flour. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, cinnamon, salt and rolled oats. Stir well. Add raisins, nuts and flour. Stir well and drop in greased pans. Bake 20 minutes. .

- Mrs. Percy Jackson.

Oatmeal Cookies

Three-fourths cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs (not beaten), 1 teaspoon cinnamon, salt, 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup chopped raisins, ¾ teaspoon of soda stirred into 2 cups of flour. Take small lumps in fingers and put in pan.

- Mrs. W. R. Powell.