"O weary Mothers mixing dough, Don't you wish that food would grow? Your lips would smile, I know, to see A cookie bush or doughnut tree."

Filled Cookies

½ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg,

½ cup sweet milk, 3½ cups flour,

1 teaspoon soda,

2 teaspoons cream of tartar.

Raisin Filling. 1 cup chopped raisins, ½ cup sugar, ½ cup water, 1 tablespoon flour, Cook till thick.

Cut out cookies, put spoonful filling on top, then another cookie on that and bake. Can use smaller cookie cutter on top. - Mrs. R. P. Booth.

Oat Meal Cookies

3 cups rolled oats, ½ cup lard,

1 teaspoon soda dissolved in ½ cup boiling water,

1 salt spoonful salt,

2 cups flour, ½ cup butter,

Mix together and add ½ lb. raisins, figs or dates. Sprinkle with sugar when ready to bake. - Mrs. C. W. Colby.

Hermits

3 eggs,

1½ cups sugar,

1 cup butter,

1 cup chopped raisins,

1 cup currants,

1 cup chopped nuts,

1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda,

½ cup sour cream, or sour milk can be used.

Enough flour to make as stiff as cake, (3¼ cups). Drop spoonful into a greased pan. Bake in a quick oven. - Mrs. A. M. Bishop.

Oat Meal Cookies

1 cup granulated sugar,

¾ cup butter creamed together,

Mix 2½ cups oatmeal,

2 cups sifted flour, ½ teaspoon cinnamon.

Put in sugar and butter, then add small teaspoon soda in ½ cup of sour cream or milk, 2 eggs well beaten, 1 cup chopped raisins, drop from a spoon on pans quite a distance apart. - Mrs. Homer Blair.

Oat Meal Macaroons

1 tablespoon of butter,

2 well beaten eggs,

2 level teaspoons baking powder,

1 teaspoon vanilla,

1 cup of sugar,

2 cups rolled oats, ½ teaspoon salt.

Drop on greased pan. Bake in slow oven. - Mrs. Kate Wex.

Rocks

1½ cups granulated sugar,

3 eggs,

1 teaspoon soda,

1½ lbs. English walnuts,

A little nutmeg, cloves and allspice,

1 cup butter,

2½ cups flour, ¾ lb. dates,

1 teaspoon cinnamon.

Mrs. Eva W. Prochazka.

Rocks

Cream ¼ cup melted butter and 1 cup sugar. Beat 2 eggs very light and beat into creamed mixture with egg beater. ½ cup flour, ¾ cup nut meats, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 squares melted chocolate. Bake very slowly 35 to 45 minutes in 1 layer tins. - Mrs. F. H. Putnam.

Ginger Snaps

1 cup butter and lard, 6 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon ginger, Flour to roll,

1 cup brown sugar,

1 cup New Orleans molasses,

1 teaspoon salt,

1 tablespoon soda,

Mrs. W. B. Ebaugh.

Fruit Cookies

2 cups sugar, 1 cup sour milk, 3½ cups flour, 1 cup raisins, Nutmeg,

1 cup butter,

2 eggs,

1 teaspoon soda, ½ teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt.

Drop in pan, one teaspoon to the drop. - Mrs. Thos. A. Greer.