Sugar to be sprinkled over cookies is best dusted on the molding-board and the dough rolled over it.

Ingredients for cookies need not be creamed together as carefully as for nice cake. Neither should the eggs be beaten separately. Bead the hints for Cake Baking.

Cookies (Eggless).; - ½ cupful of sweet milk. Dissolve in it 1/3 teaspoonful of soda, ¾ teaspoonful of cream-tartar, sifted in part of the flour. 1 cupful sugar, 1/3 cupful butter. Flour to roll well and thin; cut in squares; brisk oven. Sour milk and soda may be used. Dripping may be substituted for butter. Flavor, or spice to suit.

Favorite Cookies

2 eggs.

3 cupfuls of sugar.

½ cupful of butter.

1 cupful of sour cream. ½ teaspoonful of soda. 1 nutmeg grated.

Flour to roll. Sprinkle sugar over the top. Granulated is best.

Vanilla Cookies

1 cupful of butter. ½ cupful water.

2 cupfuls of sugar. 2 eggs.

1½ teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. 1 large teaspoonful of vanilla. Flour to roll thin. Water Cookies.

1 cupful of sugar.

1 cupful of cold water.

1 teaspoonful of cream-tartar.

Flour to roll.

½ cupful of butter. ½ teaspoonful of soda.

Spice to the taste.

Cinnamon Cookies

Mass the same as Eggless Cookies, spicing with 2 teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon. Lemon Cookies.

1 quart of flour. 1 pint of sugar].

1 cupful of butter. 8 eggs.

1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the juice of 1 lemon. 2 tablespoonfuls of cold water. Grated yellow rind of the lemon.

Dutch Cookies

½ pound of pulverized sugar.

½ pound of butter, creamed together.

6 eggs, beaten separately. Add the yolks first, then the whites beaten to a froth. 8 tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder sifted with part of the flour. Use enough flour to make a stiff dough. Boll and cut out. Beat 1 egg, brush the top of each cooky with this, then strew sugar, cinnamon and sliced almonds (previously scalded) over them. Excellent to keep. The almonds may be omitted.

Caraway Seed Cookies

5 cupfuls of sifted flour. 1 cupful of butter.

Rub into it:

3 cupfuls of powdered sugar.

1 tablespoonful of caraway seeds. 1 beaten egg.

1 cupful of sour milk, dissolving in it ½ teaspoonful of soda. Flour enough to roll. Caraway seed may be Used as flavoring with some of the plainer varieties of cookies.

Cream Cookies

1 cupful of sour cream. l egg.

2 cupfuls of sugar.

½ teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the cream. Flavor to suit. Use flour enough to roll out. Have a little thicker than ordinary cookies.

Fruit Cookies

2 cupfuls of sugar.

2 cupfuls chopped raisins.

2 tablespoonfuls sour milk.

1 cupful of butter.

2 eggs.

2 tablespoonfuls of cinnamon.

1 teaspoonful each of cloves and grated nutmeg. Flour to roll out. Bake same as other cookies.

Spice Cookies

½ cupful of lard.

1½ cupfuls of brown sugar.

Flour enough to roll out.

1 cupful of buttermilk. ½ teaspoonful of soda.

Spice with 1 teaspoonful each of grated nutmeg, ground allspice, mace and ginger, and 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon. Part of these spices or all of them can be used, according to taste or the condition of the spice-box. These are very nice frosted in the center.

Frosted Cookies (Plain And Good)

½ cupful of butter.

2 eggs, omitting 1 white.

1 cupful of sugar.

1 cupful of sweet milk and water, half and half.

½ teaspoonful of soda. 1 teaspoonful of cream-tartar.

Flavor with lemon extract. Flour to roll. Bake. When cool frost with the remaining white of an egg beaten to a froth and stirred stiff with 9 teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar.

Honey Cookies

3½ pounds flour. ½ pound butter. 1 nutmeg, grated. 1 teaspoonful ginger.

1½ pounds honey.

½ pound sugar.

1 tablespoonful cinnamon.

Roll out thin and cut in small cakes. Bake in a quick oven. Let stand until moist. Will keep a long time.

Cocoanut Cookies

2 cupfuls white sugar.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoonful baking-powder.

Pinch of salt.

1 cupful butter.

1 cupful or more of cocoanut.

9 cupful sweet milk.

Flour to roll out. Fresh cocoanut grated may be used or the desiccated.

Hickory-Nut Cookies

2 cupfuls sugar.

2 eggs.

½ teaspoonful soda.

1 cupful hickory nut-meats.

2/3 cupful of butter.

6 tablespoonfuls sweet milk.

1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.

Dissolve the soda in the milk, sift the cream-tartar through the flour. Mix all the ingredients, except the nuts, together with enough flour for a soft dough. Add the nuts last. Drop in spoonfuls on a buttered pan, pat into shape and bake a light brown.

Graham Cookies

2 cupfuls sugar. 1 cupful fine floor.

2 cupfuls sour cream ½ teaspoonful soda.

1 egg. Pinch of salt.

Graham flour sufficient to roll out soft as possible. New Tear's Cookies.

1 pound white sugar, creamed with:

¾ pound butter. 1 grated nutmeg.

3 beaten eggs. 1 pint flour.

1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in 1 cupful milk and mixed with 1 cupful of cider. Stir all together, adding flour if necessary to roll. Bake in a quick oven.