Dropped Nut Cookies

Butter, 1/2 cup. Sugar, 1 cup.

Egg, 1.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon.

Flour, 2 cups. Salt, a pinch. Walnuts, 3/4 cup. Milk. 1-3 cup.

Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten egg, dry ingredients mixed and sifted together, milk, and nuts chopped coarsely. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased tin and bake in a quick oven.

Miss A. E. B., Jamaica Plain.

Lady Fingers

Eggs, 4.

Powdered sugar, 1/2 cup.

Salt, 1/2 saltspoon. Flavoring, 1 teaspoon.

Pastry flour, 3/4 cup.

Mix as for sponge cake, drop into lady finger tins or press through a pastry tube into right shape, sprinkle over with powdered sugar and bake 12 to 15 minutes in a very slow oven.

English Cook, Newtonville.

Hermits

Sugar, 1 1/2 cups.

Molasses, 1/4 cup. Shortening, 1/2 cup. Eggs, 3.

Spices of all kinds, 1/2 teaspoon

each. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Water, 1 tablespoon. Chopped raisins, 1 cup.

Flour.

Mix with flour as soft as can be handled, roll out or spread out thin in a large pan. Bake in a moderate oven. Filet Crank.

Boiled Molasses Chips

Molasses, 1 pint. Butter, 1/2 cup.

Soda, 1 teaspoon. Flour.

Ginger, 1 teaspoon.

Boil molasses and butter together 5 minutes, take from stove and add soda and ginger sifted with enough flour to roll out. Roll as thin as note paper and cut in strips about 4 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. Bake in a quick oven.

Old-Fashioned Caraway Cookies

Butter, 1 cup. Sugar, 2 cups. Milk, 3/4 cup.

Eggs, 2.

Salt, 1/2 teaspoon. Vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon. Caraway seeds, 2 heaping tea-spoons. Flour, 5 cups.

Baking powder, 2 teaspoons.

Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add milk, beaten eggs, flour sifted with baking powder and salt, caraway seeds and vanilla. Roll out very thin and cut in fancy shapes. Bake quickly in a very hot oven.

Monkeys

Sugar, 1 cup.

Butter, 1 heaping tablespoon.

Egg, 1.

Sour milk, 2-3 cup.

Soda, 1 teaspoon.

Flour, 2 cups.

Lemon extract, 1 teaspoon.

Raisins.

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg and remaining in-gredients in order given. Drop from spoon onto buttered floured pan, press three raisins into each (2 for eyes and one for mouth) and bake till lightly browned. M. D., Fitchburg.

Peanut Butter Dainties

Peanut butter, 2 tablespoons. Sugar, 1 cup.

Flour, 1 cup. Eggs, 2.

Baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon.

Rub peanut butter to a cream. Mix with sugar and flour until smooth, then add well beaten eggs and baking powder. Drop from spoon on buttered paper 1/2 inch apart and bake in moderate oven till golden brown.

Bran Cookies

Butter, 1/2 cup. Brown sugar, 1 cup. Eggs, 2. Milk, 2 tablespoons.

Bran, 2 1/2 cups.

Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 2 teaspoons.

Chopped raisins, 1/2 cup.

Flour.

Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, milk and bran with salt and baking powder. Beat thoroughly, add raisins and flour to make stiff enough to roll out. Cut out, sprinkle with sugar and nutmeg and bake in a quick oven.