Soft Ginger Cookies

1 cup N. O. molasses, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup shortening, 1 tbsp. ginger, 1 tbsp. soda, 1 cup boiling water, 4 cups flour, 3 eggs. Put molasses, sugar and shortening in bowl; add boiling water in which soda has been dissolved. Beat well, add flour and ginger, and beat again. Add well-beaten eggs (just 1 egg makes good cookies). Drop from tbsp. on cookie tin and bake in moderate oven. Makes 36 large cookies.

- Mrs. Sarah Swingle.

Ginger Bread

2/3 cup molasses, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter (fill cup with boiling water), 1 egg (beaten), 13/4 cup flour, 1 small tsp. soda, sifted in flour, 1/2 tsp. each cinnamon and cloves, 1 tsp. ginger. Bake in sheet 30 minutes.

- Mrs. E. R. Pulliam.

Ginger Bread

1/3 cup butter, 2/3 cup boiling water, 1 cup molasses, 1 egg, 2 3/4 cups flour, 1 1/2 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. ginger, 1/2 tsp. allspice or cloves. Mix dry ingredients. Put butter in cup and fill with water. Add molasses, egg well-beaten, then dry mixture. Bake in large shallow pan about 30 minutes.

- Mrs. M. Belle Woods.

Small Ginger Bread

1/4 cup shortening, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 egg unbeaten, 1 tsp. soda, 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk (scant), 1/2 cup molasses. Sift together 2 scant cups flour, 1 tsp. ginger, 1/4 tsp. salt, spices to taste, and add to other mixture. Bake in slow oven, hot at first.

- Mrs. C. H. Hathaway.

Ginger Bread

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup lard or butter, 1/2 cup molasses, 1 large tsp. soda dissolved in cup of hot water. 1/2 tsp. ginger, 1 scant tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. allspice, 2 cups flour, or enough to make stiff batter; then break in 2 eggs and pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly.

- Mrs. A. G. Aeppli.

Ginger Bread

1 egg, 1/2 cup shortening, 2/3 cup molasses, 1 tsp. ginger, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 2 tsp. soda, 1 cup boiling water, 2 cups flour. Mix as plain cake, adding flour last; looks very thin but it is all right.

- Mrs. A. W. Johnson.

Ginger Bread

1 cup white sugar, 1 cup N. O. molasses, 1 cup shortening, 1 cup sour milk (or cream), 4 cups flour, 2 tsp. soda, 2 tsp. ginger, 1 tsp. salt. Bake 30 minutes.

- Mrs. Geo. F. Tyson.

President Mckinley's Favorite Ginger Bread

1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 1/2 cups molasses, 3/4 cup lard, 1 cup hot water, 1 1/2 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. salt, 2 heaping tsp. ginger, 1 tsp. baking powder. Enough flour to make very stiff (about 1 qt.). Just before placing in oven, drop in 3 eggs, one at a time unbeaten, and beat well into mixture. Bake slowly.

A large recipe: 1/3 for ordinary use.

- Mrs. F. A. Pontious.

Soft Ginger Bread

1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup N. 0. molasses, 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. each of cinnamon, cloves, and ginger, 2 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 cup boiling water. Lastly, 2 well-beaten eggs.

- Mrs. Horace G. Smith.

Soft Ginger Bread

1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tbsp. ground ginger, 1/2 tbsp. cinnamon, 2 eggs, 2 tsp. soda. - Mrs. A. S. Roome.

Soft Ginger Bread

Break 1 egg in a cup and fill with molasses. Add 1/2 cup melted butter, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 3/4 cups flour, 1 tsp. cinnamon.

Bake in slow oven. - Mrs. I. P. Berry.