Oatmeal Fruit Bars

Oatmeal, 3 cups.

Whole wheat flour, 4 cups.

Sugar, 1 1/2 cups.

Melted butter, 1 cup. Seeded raisins, 1 cup. Salt, 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Soda, 1 teaspoon.

adding. Mix to a stiff dough with cold water and roll out as thin as possible. Cut in long bars. Lay on greased tins and bake in hot oven.

Fig Bars

Milk, 1 cup.

Maple sugar, 1 pound.

Cream of tartar, a pinch. Lemon extract, 1 teaspoon.

Chopped figs, l 1/2 cups.

Boil milk, sugar and cream of tartar slowly for 20 minutes, add extract and figs. Bring again to boil and pour into buttered pan. When cool cut into bars 2 inches long and 1 inch wide.

Honey Cakes

Flour, 1 3/4 pounds. Honey, 3/4 pound. Nutmeg, 1/2.

Butter, 1/4 pound. Sugar, 1/4 pound. Ginger, 1 tablespoon.

Soda, 1 teaspoon.

Cream butter and sugar, add honey and flour mixed and sifted with spices and soda. Roll thin and bake in a quick oven. Cover in a cookie jar and let stand until moist before eating.

Chocolate Jumbles

Butter, 1/2 cup. Eggs, 2.

Sugar, 1 cup.

Baking powder, 2 teaspoons. Unsweetened chocolate, 2

squares. Flour, 2 cups.

Milk, 1 teaspoon.

Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, chocolate melted and flour sifted with baking powder. Roll out 1 inch thick, cut out with a doughnut cutter, dust with powdered sugar and bake 10 minutes.

Cocoanut Jumbles

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

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Eggs, 2. Cocoanut, 1 cup.

Vanilla, 1 teaspoon.

Cream butter and sugar, add flavoring, well beaten eggs and flour sifted with the baking powder. Stir in cocoanut last of all. Roll out thin, adding a little more flour if needed. Cut into rings with a jumble cutter. Brush the tops with milk, sprinkle with a mixture of granulated sugar and cocoanut and bake a d?licate brown in a rather hot oven.

Spiced Tea Cakes

Eggs, 2.

Butter, 1 heaping tablespoon.

Milk.

Sugar, 1 cup.

Flour, 2 cups.

Cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon.

Soda, 1/2 teaspoon. Allspice, 1/2 teaspoon. Clove, 1/2 teaspoon. Cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon. Nutmeg, a dash. Raisins, 1 cup.

Break eggs into a cup, melt butter and add to eggs, fill up cup with milk and turn into a mixing bowl. Add sugar, sift flour 3 times with remaining dry ingredients and add. Lastly stir in floured raisins. Bake in gem pans and frost with white frosting.

H. E. G., Roxbury.

Cinnamon Crisps

Butter, 1-3 cup. Sugar, 2-3 cup. Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Flour, l 1/2 cups.

Milk, 1/4 cup

Cream the butter and sugar, add the cinnamon sifted with the baking powder, salt and flour. Add the milk and roll very thin, cut in rounds, and sprinkle the top with cinnamon and sugar. Bake 10 minutes in a very hot oven.