Currant Loaf

3 cups Gold Medal Flour,

2-3 cup butter,

1/2 cup sugar,

1/2 teaspoonful salt,

1 cup cleaned currants,

Grated rind 1 lemon,

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Mix dry ingredients, rub in butter, add currants and lemon rind, mix to a very thick drop batter with cold milk. Turn into well-greased loaf - pan, bake hour in moderate oven.

Molasses Cookies

1 quart molasses,

2 ounces soda,

1 pint and one gill of water,

1/4 pound lard,

Sufficient Gold Medal Flour to mix.

Put the molasses, water, soda and lard in a bowl, mix them together; then add flour enough to make a nice dough, suitable to roll out and cut; wash with milk or water on top.

Molasses cookies are very common cakes, but they are not easy to make, for the reason that there is no rule you can work by that will answer in all cases. All molasses does not work alike; some kinds will bear more water than others, and the weather has to be taken into consideration. In cold weather you can use more water than in warm weather. Sometimes you can use the same quantity of water as molasses. Be very careful and not get the dough too stiff, and do not work any more than is necessary to mix.

Spice Cakes

Two cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, cup sour milk, 2 cups Gold Medal Flour, a good 1/2 teaspoonful soda, the yolks of 5 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls cloves, 2 teaspoonfuls allspice, 1 nutmeg.

Oatmeal Cookies

Two and one-quarter cups Gold Medal Flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon-ful soda, 21/2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup butter, 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk, flavor to taste. Roll, cut and bake quickly.

Cocoanut Drop Cookies

One cup brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 1/2 cup sour milk or 1/4 cup butter and 1/2 cup cream, sour, 1 teaspoonful soda in milk, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, 2 cups Gold Medal Flour, 1 box cocoanut. Drop from spoon on greased pans.

Ginger Snaps

One cup sugar, 1 cup Orleans molasses, 1 cup butter, heat them boiling hot, take from the stove and stir in 1 cup Gold Medal Flour while hot, let cool, add 2 teaspoonfuls soda, dissolve in a little vinegar, 2 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoonful of ginger in the flour, beat all the rest. Knead enough Gold Medal Flour in to roll out nicely.

Eggless Cake (Fine)

Two cups sugar, 1 cup buttermilk, 4 cups Gold Medal Flour, 1 teaspoonful each nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and allspice, 2 cups raisins, chopped fine, 1 cup butter, 1 cup cold coffee, 2 level teaspoonfuls soda, 1 cup nuts, chopped fine. Mix all together. Add nuts and raisins last.