Soft Gingerbread

One cup molasses, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon ginger, mix to a light golden brown, and add 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little hot water. 3 1-2 cups or less of flour. This should bake very slowly in a dripping pan, lined with thick paper. Try this with cream for a dessert.

Mrs. D. D. Clark.

Ginger Bread

Sift together 1-2 cup sugar, 2 level teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ginger, 3 cups of flour. Mix with 1 cup molasses, 2 well beaten eggs, and add 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 cup boiling water. Turn into hot greased pans, well dusted with flour, and bake in a slow oven. Best if eaten while hot. Mrs. George Marshall.

Marshmallow Filling

Is delicious with ginger bread, improving the old fashioned dainty until it is scarcely recognizable.

Boil 1-2 cup of sugar, 1-4 cup water, add 1-8 of a pound of chocolate until it threads. Dissolve 1-2 lb. marshmallows in 1 tablespoon boiling water, add to the chocolate mixture, beat all together, and spread between and on top of ginger bread. Serve while fresh. The chocolate may be omitted .and chopped nuts of almost any kind used.

Zella's Ginger Bread

Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ginger, 3 cups flour. Zella Langford.

' It is not the spurt at the start, but the unhasting, continued advance that wins the day."

Nuremberg Ginger Bread

Four eggs, I teaspoon mace, 1-4 teaspoon cloves, 1-4 cup candied orange peek 1 cup sugar, 2 cups Hour, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1-2 lb. almonds.

Beat the eggs very light without separating, add mace, cloves, orange peel chopped fine, add gradually the sugar, and beat until very light, then sift in the flour with the salt and baking powder and add the almonds blanched and split in half. Bake in .shallow pans. B. C. B.