This section is from the book "The Peoria Women's Cook Book". See also How to Cook Everything.
1 cup of sugar, ½ cup of flour,
2 eggs,
Nuts of any kind,
1 teaspoon of vanilla, ½ cup of butter,
2 squares chocolate.
Stir up like cake, pour into greased pan and bake from 20 to 30 minutes. Cut in squares. - Geneive Kullmer.
2 teaspoons butter, 1½ cups white sugar,
½ cup sweet milk.
Heat slowly to the boiling point. Boil 12 minutes. Add one-third cup cocoanut and ½ teaspoon vanilla. Beat until creamy and pour into buttered tins. - Mrs. R. M. Wrigley.
One and one-half cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1½ cups chopped raisins,
3 eggs, 3½ cups flour, pinch of salt, a little nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cinnamon,
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little hot water, 2 teaspoons sweet milk, 1 lb. shelled walnuts, chopped. Drop in dripping pans. - Mrs. J. M. Baillie.
1½ cups of sugar,
1 cup of lard,
2 eggs,
½ teaspoon of salt, 5 teaspoons of cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of ginger, ¾ teaspoon of allspice,
1 cup of molasses, Two-thirds cup of hot coffee, 3 teaspoons of soda,
2 teaspoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of cloves,
1 teaspoon of nutmeg, Flour for soft dough.
This make 3 dozen cookies. - Mrs. L. W. Foster.
1½ Pt. brown sugar, (heaping),
¾ pt. lard,
4 pts. flour, (rounding),
½ pt. molasses,
3 eggs,
1 heaping tablespoon of soda.
Flavor to taste.
Beat an egg and brush on top before baking. - Oma Flora.
1 cup sugar, ½ cup water, 5 marshmallows, Whites of 2 eggs,
2 tablespoons shredded cocoanut,
½ teaspoon vanilla,
1 cup English walnuts (chopped)
Saltines.
Boil sugar and water until syrup will thread. Remove from fire, and add marshmallows cut in pieces. Pour onto the whites of eggs; then add cocoanut, vanilla, and nut meats. Spread saltines with mixture, and bake until delicately browned. - Mrs. Wm. Stoltzman.
One egg, pinch of salt, beat well, add enough flour to make paste thick enough to roll. Roll very thin. Cut in strips with slit in center. Bake in hot grease as doughnuts till brown. Roll in powdered sugar and cinnamon mixed. - Mrs. Josephine Bush.
1 cup granulated sugar,
2 cups cocoanuts,
2 tablespoonsful flour.
Stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs, mix well and drop in small cakes in a well buttered pan. Bake in quick oven. - Mrs. Henry DeMoure.
½ cup butter,
1 cup boiling water,
4 eggs,
1 cup flour.
Put butter in water, bring to boiling point, add quickly flour and salt, stir well, remove from fire and allow mixture to become cool, but not cold, add eggs one at a time and beat thoroughly. Bake from thirty to forty minutes. When cool, split open side and fill with whipped cream, sweetened to taste or with filling made as follows: ½ cup scalded milk, two-thirds cup sugar, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 eggs, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 teaspoons butter. - Mrs. L. E. Graham.
 
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