Sugar Cookies

½ cup butter.

1 cup sugar.

1 tablespoon milk.

Flavoring.

2 eggs.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

¼ teaspoon salt.

2 cups flour.

Cream butter; add sugar, yolks well beaten, flour, baking powder, and salt, milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth, and enough more flour to make of consistency to roll. Cut off a small piece of dough, roll on floured board, sprinkle with granulated sugar, shape with cooky cutter, and bake ten minutes. Save all trimmings until the last. Do not mix trimmings with fresh dough.

Soft Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter.

2 cups sugar 2 eggs.

⅛ teaspoon salt.

1 cup milk.

4 cups flour.

3 teaspoons baking powder.

1 teaspoon lemon extract.

Cream the butter, add sugar, and when creamy the remaining ingredients. Chill. Roll, cut in rounds and bake in a quick oven.

Sand Cookies

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg ¼ teaspoon salt.

2 cups flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

2 teaspoons cinnamon mixed with.

4 tablespoons sugar.

½ cup blanched almonds.

Mix as sugar cookies; roll; shape with doughnut cutter; brush with water or white of egg; sprinkle with cinnamon mixture. Decorate with halves of almonds. Bake in a quick oven.

Nut Cookies

¼ cup butter.

½ cup sugar.

2 eggs.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

½ teaspoon salt.

1 cup flour.

¼ cup milk.

1 cup chopped nut meats.

Flavoring.

Mix like Sugar Cookies. Add nuts; drop from a teaspoon on to buttered sheet. Decorate with halves of nuts. Bake in quick oven.

Almond Cookies

½ cup butter.

½ cup sugar.

1 cup chopped almonds.

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

3 egg yolks.

1½ cups flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

½ teaspoon vanilla.

Mix in the order given. Chill, roll, brush with white of egg, sprinkle with granulated sugar, cut, and bake in a quick oven.

Cocoa Cocoanut Cookies

3 eggs.

1 cup sugar.

½ cup heavy cream.

½ cup shredded cocoanut.

¼ cup Lowney's Always Ready.

Chocolate Powder 2½ cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder.

1 teaspoon salt.

Mix ingredients in order given. Chill, roll ¼ inch thick, and shape with cooky cutter. Bake in moderate oven.

Chocolate Cookies

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar.

1 egg.

3 squares Lowney's.

2 cups flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

½ teaspoon salt.

4 tablespoons milk.

Premium Chocolate.

Cream butter; add remaining ingredients. Chill, roll, and shape. Bake in a moderate oven.