Sour Cream Cookies

2/3 cup shortening 1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup thick sour cream

1 scant teaspoon soda Flour enough to mix Salt

Do not mix too stiff. Before baking rub lightly with the unbeaten white of an egg and sprinkle with sugar.

Walnut Cookies

1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup molasses 1/3 cup melted butter 1 egg well beaten 1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon each of ginger, cloves and salt 1 teaspoon soda 3 1/2 cups flour

Mix sugar, molasses, butter, egg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt, add soda dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water. Mix well, add flour and nuts. Pinch off small pieces the size of a walnut. Roll in sugar and bake in quick oven.

Sugar Cookies

1 small cup sugar

1 small cup crisco and butter

2 large cups flour 2 tablespoons milk

2 eggs well beaten

2 level tablespoons baking powder Extract or spice

Mix sugar and shortening, add milk and eggs. Sift baking powder with flour and stir all together. Roll, cut and bake in moderately hot oven.

Cheese Straws

4 tablespoons sifted flour 2 cups grated cheese

1/2 teaspoon salt Yolks of 2 eggs

Knead as you would bread. Roll quarter of an inch thick. Cut in strips and bake fifteen minutes in hot oven.

Cheese Balls

2 cups grated cheese 1 cup cracker crumbs

1 egg

Salt and pepper

Mix all together, and if necessary add a little milk to mould into balls, fry in deep fat and drain on paper. Serve with pie or salads.

Crumbettes

1/2 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup boiling water 1/2 teaspoon soda

2 cups rolled oats 1 cup flour

1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar, add boiling water in which soda has been dissolved, then rolled oats, flour, nuts and raisins. Mix and let stand one hour before rolling out. Bake like cookies or drop cakes.

Cream Puffs

1 cup boiling water 1/2 cup butter

1 cup flour sifted 3 eggs unbeaten

To the boiling water add butter, let boil a minute, then add sifted flour, remove from fire, beat until cool and add unbeaten eggs, one at a time. Stir this mixture until smooth. Drop a tablespoon of batter into hot gem pans and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Fill with whipped cream or rich custard with chopped nuts or bananas.

Fruits And Nut Bars

1 cup sugar 3/4 cup flour

2 eggs

1 cup nuts chopped

1 cup dates chopped Finch of baking powder Pinch of salt

Beat eggs and sugar well, add nuts, dates, flour. Bake in shallow pan, lined with well greased heavy paper. When cold cut in oblong pieces and roll in powdered sugar.

Hermits

3 cups brown sugar

1 cup butter 6 cups flour

2 cups raisins

2 cups currants 2 teaspoons soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

4 tablespoons sweet milk

4 eggs

1 cup chopped nuts

A little grated orange peel

Cream butter and sugar. Add milk, beaten eggs and soda sifted into half the flour. Add fruit and nuts which have been chopped and floured, then the spices and balance of flour. Roll and bake in moderate oven.

Kisses

1 cup granulated sugar 3 whites of eggs

6 drops of vanilla

Beat whites of eggs on a platter till very light and dry, add sugar gradually, beating it in well, last the vanilla. Drop in spoonfuls on a tin baking sheet lightly buttered. Bake one hour in an extremely slow oven, watching carefully, as they should not be more than a deep cream color when done.

If the kisses are made according to directions and baked slowly, they will not spread while baking. Do not beat eggs in a bowl but on a platter, with a flat wire egg-beater. This is necessary to obtain results.

Kisses No. II

2 egg whites 2/3 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 1/2 cups cocoanut

Put bowl into pan of hot water while mixing above ingredients. Drop on tin and bake.

Macaroons

1/2 pound granulated sugar 1/2 pound English walnuts

1/2 teaspoon almond extract Whites of 2 eggs

Add sugar gradually to the unbeaten whites of eggs. Beat the mixture until it bubbles. Add flavoring, stir in the nuts. Heat tins and oil with paraffin. Take mixture out by teaspoon - fuls, and roll in palm of hand to size of small walnut. Bake in moderate oven. Sufficient for fifty macaroons.

Marguerites

1/2 cup powdered sugar Hot milk Walnuts chopped

Lemon extract

Salt

Crackers

To powdered sugar add enough milk to make right consistency to spread, add salt and extract. Spread this on crisp soda crackers, sprinkle with walnuts.

Rocks

1 cup crisco or butter 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 3 cups flour

3 eggs or 7 yolks

2 cups seeded raisins chopped

1/4 teaspoon cloves

1 level teaspoon soda, dissolved in 1/3 cup hot water

1 rounded teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup walnuts chopped

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Mix butter and sugar, add eggs, spices, two cups of the flour sifted with baking powder and soda. Put nuts and raisins into remaining cup of flour and add to mixture. Drop on buttered tin. Bake in moderate oven.