Dark Drop Cookies

1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup shortening, 1 egg, 1/2 cup each hot water and molasses, 1 tsp. each soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt, sifted with 2 1/2 cups flour.

Mix well, drop from small spoon upon greased tin and bake in quick oven. - Mrs. Ed. Holtz.

Frosted Creams

1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses. 1 cup lard, 1/2 cup sour milk, 2 eggs, (save white of one for icing), 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. nutmeg, 3 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. salt, flour.

Cream sugar and lard, add beaten eggs, molasses, spices, soda dissolved in milk and enough flour to make quite stiff. Drop from spoon on buttered pans and bake. Cover with icing.

Icing

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water. Boil until it threads: pour in the beaten white of 1 egg, beating until thick enough to spread on cakes.

- Mrs. Wallace Severance.

Molasses Cookies

1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 cup hot water, with 1 tsp. soda, 1/3 tsp. salt, 1/3 tsp. ginger, and flour sufficient to roll out. These are much better if stirred stiff with spoon. Set in a cool place over night. Roll and bake.

- Mrs. J. E. Hathaway.

Molasses Cookies

1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup molasses, 3/4 cup buttermilk, 3 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. ginger and other spices to suit the taste. Mix in the usual order, roll thin, cut, and bake. - Mrs. D. L. Miller.

Ice Box Cookies

1 lb. butterine, except one small slice, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 3 eggs, 5 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup black walnut meats, chopped.

Cream shortening and sugar, add eggs unbeaten, sift flour, add soda to first cup flour, sift again and add to mixture, then add remainder of flour and other ingredients. Knead, but do not roll. Put in dripping pan about 12 inches square. Let stand over night. In morning cut in 3 strips. Slice thin when ready to bake. The strips may be wrapped in waxed paper placed in ice box and baked as needed. Bake in quick oven 5 minutes. They are supposed to be crisp. Do not keep in cake box. Makes 200 cookies.

- Mrs. H. B. Judson.

Ice Box Cookies

1 lb. butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 1 tbsp. cinnamon, 5 cups flour, 1 scant tbsp. soda, 1/4 lb. almonds.

Cream the butter, add the sugar, beaten eggs, cinnamon and soda mixed with the flour. Knead well, roll in one large roll or loaf. Let stand all night in ice box or cool place. In morning cut in thin slices and bake in quick oven. Before baking place the almonds shaved in thin slices in a simple design on the cookies.

- Mrs. E. Duble.

Chocolate Hermits

1/2 cup shortening, 2/3 cup white sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup seeded raisins or currants, 1/4 tsp. salt, 2 level tsp. baking powder, 2 cups flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, 2 tbsp. hot water, 1 tsp. cinnamon.

Cream butter. Add sugar, eggs, raisins, flour in which baking powder, salt and cinnamon have been sifted. Add cocoa mixed in hot water. (More water may be needed.)

Drop from spoon onto greased pan and bake moderate oven.

- Mrs. L. Ermil Butler.