Date Cookies

1/2 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2teaspoonful soda dissolved in 3 tablcspoonfuls sour milk

1/4 teaspoonful salt

1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup dates, seeded and chopped 1 3/4 cups flour

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, then add egg well beaten, soda dissolved in milk, 1/2 cup of the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon. Add walnuts, dates and the rest of the flour. Drop by spoonfuls, one inch apart on a greased pan, and bake in a moderate oven. Albert Metzler,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Macaroons

1 cup sugar 2/3 cup butter

2 eggs

Stir until light and creamy

2 cups sifted flour 2/3 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Sift flour, soda, salt and cinnamon together, and add to sugar butter and egg mixture, then add :

2 cups rolled oatmeal, put 1 cup shredded raisins through a grinder 1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup shredded dates

Mix thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased pan, and bake rather slowly.

Date Marguerites Take square wafers, crisp a little in the oven, then put a generous spoonful of stiff boiled frostings, to which has been added chopped nuts and dates, on each. Brown in oven or not as is liked.

Date Nut Drops

Mix 3/4 cup butter with

1 1/2 cups brown sugar A pinch of salt 3 well beaten eggs 2 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 cups chopped dates

1 cup chopped nuts

1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon and soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar Lastly add 1/2 cup hot water Drop from a spoon

Mrs. H. H. Postlethwaite,

Coachella, Calif.

Drop Cakes

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

3 eggs, well beaten

1 cup dates cut in pieces

3 cups flour

1 teaspoonful cinnamon

1 cup butter

1/4 cup milk

A pinch of salt

1 cup English walnut meats

1 teaspoonful soda

Mix in the usual way, and drop from a spoon in small lumps.

Fruit Cookies

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 egg 1/2 cup milk

2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar 1 teaspoon soda, flour to roll [1 cup wheat flour, 1 of barley and 1/2 of rice may be used.]

Filling

1 cup chopped dates 1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

1 tablespoonful flour

Mix flour and sugar first, then add other ingredients, and cook. Roll dough thin, cut, place a small portion of the filling on one cooky, placing another cooky on top. Press edges together.

Mrs. C. S. Robinson,

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Hermit Cookies, With Dates

1 cup butter 2 cups sugar

1 cup chopped dates and raisins mixed

3 eggs

1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk

Add all kinds of spices to taste, and flour to roll. < Jut out and bake. Will keep a long time.

Mrs. H. Brown, Northfield, Vermont.

Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter

1 cup flour

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted with flour

2 cups oatmeal

1 teaspoonful salt

2 small eggs or 1 large one 1 tablespoonful of water

1 cup chopped dates

Drop from a spoon in small cakes.

Mrs. C. O. Moss, Coachella, Calif.

Quick Nut And Date Roll

3 cups flour

5 teaspoons baking powder

% teaspoon salt

1/3 cup Crisco

1 egg well beaten

1/4 cup milk

1 tablespoon softened Crisco

1/3 cup dates, cut

1/3 cup nut meats

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon if desired

Sift together dry ingredients twice, then work in the Crisco. Add part of the milk to the egg, and use in mixing the dry ingredients to a dough. Use more of the milk as is required. Turn the dough on a floured board, knead a little and roll into a rectangular sheet 1/3 inch thick, spread with softened Crisco, sprinkle over the other ingredients and roll compactly as in a jelly roll. Cut in pieces 1 1/2 inches long, set on end close together in a pan, and bake twenty minutes. Janet McKenzie Hill.

Rich Date Cookies

1 cup sugar

1 cup butter

2 eggs

1 pound dates, cut up

1/4 pound walnuts, chopped 2 cups flour, and 1 teaspoon soda sifted with it

Drop in small balls three inches apart on greased cooky tins.

Mrs. H. T. Fothergill,

Coachella, Calif.

War Cakes

1 cup molasses

1 3/4 teaspoons soda

1 cup sour milk

1/2 cup shortening, melted

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon cloves

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup dates, cut in pieces

Add soda to molasses and beat thoroughly, add milk, shortening, spice, salt and sifted flour and dates.

Drop from a teaspoon from on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. C. O. Moss,

Coachella, Calif.