Ingredients. - One pound of flour. Half a pound of treacle. Four ounces of butter. Half an ounce of ground ginger. Allspice. One teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Salt.

Time required, about twenty-five minutes.

To make Ginger-Bread Nuts :

1. Put one pound of flour into a basin with about half a salt-spoonful of salt.

2. Add half an ounce of ground ginger, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and allspice.

3. Put half a pound of treacle and four ounces of butter into a saucepan, and melt them together over the fire.

4. Mix the ingredients together, and then add the melted treacle and the four ounces of butter, and mix all well together into a firm paste.

N. B. - Be very careful that all the ingredients are well mixed, and that there are no lumps left.

5. Flour a board, and turn the paste out on to it.

6. Flour your hands and knead the paste.

7. Now divide the paste into about twenty-four pieces.

8. Roll each piece into a ball, like a walnut, and put them two inches apart on a greased tin.

9. Put them into the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) for fifteen minutes.

10. After that time, turn the ginger-bread nuts off the tin and set them aside to cool.