Cookies

Two cups sugar, 1 cup shortening, 2 eggs, lemon extract, 2-3 cup of milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, flour to roll out. Mrs. A. Bacon.

Cookies

Two cups sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons lard, 2 tablespoons baking powder, 3 eggs, milk, flour.

Break the eggs in a cup and fill with milk. Sift the baking powder with a sieve full of flour and add flavoring to taste. Mrs. M. C. McLellan.

Sour Cream Cookies

One cup of thick sour cream, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 egg, flour to roll soft, lemon or nutmeg.

This rule may be varied by adding 1-2 cup of chopped nuts or raisins and spices to taste. Mrs. W. H. Ingley.

Cookies

One quart flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons milk, vanilla. Should be mixed soft. Mrs. S. H. Ross.

Thanksgiving Cookies

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, lemon extract.

Cream together until very light and smooth the butter and sugar, add the thoroughly beaten eggs. Sift the flour and baking powder together 3 times and add it to the batter. More flour will be required to make a dough easily handLd.

Mrs. C. H. Starbird.

Rocks

One cup butter, 1 1-2 caps sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3-4 lb. chopped dates, 1-2 lb. chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon hot water, 3 cups flour.

Dissolve the soda in the hot water and mix very stiff. Drop from a teaspoon on buttered tins and bake as cookies.

Mrs. George Walter.

Rocks

One and a half cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 1-2 cups flour, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon hot water, 3-4 lb. dates, 1 1-2 lb. walnuts, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1-2 teaspoon allspice, vanilla. Drop on buttered tins and bake. Mrs. Fenwick.

Fruit Cookies

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 4 eggs, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup walnuts, spice to taste. Flour to make a soft dough. Mrs. G. A. Biord.

Drop Cookies

Two cups pastry flour, 1-2 teaspoon baking powder, 3-4 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 1 lemon (rind), 2 eggs.

Sift all together the dry ingredients, rub in the butter, beat the eggs, and add to the other ingredients, mixing it to a very stiff dough. If not quite moist enough, add a little milk. Add citron, raisins, nuts, cocoanut or carraway seed.

Mrs. Condo.

Fruit Cookies

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 2.cups raisins, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1-2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1-2 teaspoon cloves, 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon, flour to roll out. Bake in a quick oven. Mrs. Dora Betterley.

Oat Meal Cookies

One cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 2 eggs, 3-4 cup shortening, 2 cups rolled oats, 1 cup raisins, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, flour.

Run the raisins through a grinding machine and use the uncooked rolled oats. They should be rolled out quite stiff. These are fine for children. Mrs. Fred Remmington.