Molasses Cookies

Shortening, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Soda, 2 teaspoons.

Boiling water, 1 cup.

Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Ginger, 2 heaping teaspoons.

Flour.

Melt the shortening, add the sugar and molasses. Pour the boil-ing water slowly onto the soda and when dissolved add it to the first mixture. Add salt, ginger and enough flour to make stiff. Roll out, cut in circles and bake in a quick oven.

Crisp Peanut Cookies

Butter, 1-3 cup. Lard, 1-3 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Warm water, 1/4 cup.

Soda, 1-3 teaspoon. Salt, 1/2 saltspoon. Chopped peanuts, 1/2 cup. Flour.

Cream the lard, butter and sugar and add the warm water in which is dissolved the soda and salt. Add peanuts, finely chopped, and flour and roll very thin. Mrs. H. B. C, East Boston.

Nut Cookies

Butter, 1 tablespoon.

Fine brown sugar, 1 cup.

Egg, 1.

Flour, 1 1/2 heaping tablespoons.

Nut meats, 1 cup.

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, flour and chopped nut meats. Pecans, walnuts or peanuts may be used. Drop from a tea-spoon onto a buttered cookie sheet and bake in a hot oven.

Southern Sour Cream Cookies

Butter, 1/2 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Sour milk, 1-3 cup. Sour cream, 1/4 cup. Egg, 1.

Soda, 1/2 teaspoon. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Lemon extract, 1/4 teaspoon. Vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon. Flour.

Cream butter and sugar and add other ingredients in order given, beating egg well and stirring in enough flour to roll out, not too thin. Cut into rounds, sprinkle with sugar and bake.

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Chinese Cookies

Pastry flour, 2 cups. Butter, 1/4 cup. Brown sugar, 2 cups.

Soda, 1/4 teaspoon. Lard, 1/4 cup. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon.

Cold water, 2 tablespoons.

Mix well and form into little balls the size of a nutmeg. Place 4 inches apart in an unbuttered pan and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. When done let stand in pan 5 minutes, then re-move carefully. Will keep for weeks. Don't Worry.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut butter, 1/2 cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Water, 1/2 cup.

Whole wheat flour, 1 cup. Brown sugar, 1/4 cup. Salt, a pinch.

Dissolve soda in water and mix with nut butter, add flour sifted with salt and sugar. Mix well, roll very thin, cut in strips and bake in quick oven until brown.

Orange Cookies

Butter, 1/4 cup. Sugar, 3/4 cup. Egg, 1.

Orange juice, 1/2 cup.

Flour, 3 cups.

Baking powder, 2 teaspoons.

Grated rind of 1 orange.

Cream butter and sugar and stir in well beaten egg. Add orange juice and flour sifted with baking powder. Add grated yellow rind of the orange and mix all well together. Roll out very thin, cut with a cookie cutter and bake in a moderate oven.

Hard Gingerbread Cookies

Molasses, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Lard, 2-3 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Ginger, 1 teaspoon. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Milk, 1 cup.

Flour, 1 quart.

Warm lard and mix well with molasses and sugar, then add salt and spices. Stir soda into milk and add. Sift flour before measur-ing and stir in lightly. Turn onto molding board and roll out to 1-3-inch thickness. Sift sugar over it and roll in lightly. Cut in squares and oblongs and bake in moderate oven.

Raisin Drop Cookies

Butter, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Eggs, 2. Milk, 1/2 cup. Flour, 3 cups.

Soda, 1 teaspoon. Nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Cream of tartar, 2 teaspoons. Chopped raisins, 1 cup.

Mix ingredients in order given, sifting dry ingredients together. Drop by spoonfuls onto a well greased pan, leaving room for cookies to spread.

Oatmeal Crackers

Fine oatmeal, 3 cups.

Flour, 2 cups.

Melted butter, 1/2 cup.

Sugar, 1/4 cup. Hot water, 1/2 cup. Soda, 1/2 teaspoon.

Salt, a pinch.

Mix ingredients well, dissolving soda in a little hot water. Roll very thin, sprinkle with sugar, cut in rounds and bake.