One-Two-Three-Four Cookies

1 cup of butter.

2 cups of sugar. 4 cups of flour.

4 eggs.

2 tablespoonfuls of caraway seeds or spices to taste.

Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, then flour and spices. If you like, cover the tops over with finely chopped preserved ginger, or pro-served orange peel and a sprinkling of sugar. Add ginger to the mixture and bake as a sugar gingerbread in one sheet.

Jumbles

Roll one-two-three-four cookies a little thicker, cut with a doughnut cutter and sprinkle over with sugar.

Walnut Wafers

1/2 lb. brown sugar. 1/2 lb. walnut meats.

6 tablespoonfuls of flour. 2 eggs.

Beat the yolks till light, beat in the sugar, add the flour and nuts and beaten whites of eggs. Drop by spoonfuls on larded tins that have been sprinkled with flour. Bake quickly.

Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup of butter.

1 cup of powdered sugar.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoonful of baking powder.

Flavor with lemon juice,, vanilla or nutmeg. Use flour enough to roll out; speck of salt.

Hermits

Add half a cup of stoned and chopped raisins to sugar cookies; a little cinnamon and nutmeg.

Cocoanut Cookies

Add a half cup of grated cocoanut to sugar cookies.

Spiced Cookies

3/4 cup sugar. 1/2 cup shortening, half butter.

1 egg.

4 tablespoonfuls milk.

Salt, cinnamon, nutmeg.

1/2 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in one table-spoonful water.

1 teaspoonful baking powder.

1/2 cup chopped raisons.

Flour to make stiff enough to roll.

Margaret Deland Cakes

Beat two eggs and the yolk of another until foamy; add one-half cup of brown sugar, three-fourths cup of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt sifted together, then stir in one cup of pecan nuts cut in small pieces. Put the mixture in small gem or muffin pans with a pecan nut meat in the center of each. Sift a little powdered sugar over the top. Bake about fifteen minutes.

Pepper Nuts

2 cups of powdered sugar.

4 eggs.

1/4 teaspoonful of soda.

1 teaspoonful cloves.

2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon. 1/2 lb. citron.

1 cup of hickory nuts cut fine. 1 teaspoonful salt. As much flour as you can knead in.

Beat the eggs well, then add sugar and beat again. Cut the citron in bits, add it with the nuts and spices, sift flour, soda and salt together. After the flour is added, roll in little balls, place an inch apart and bake in a moderate oven.

Pecan Wafers

Cream one-fourth cup of butter and one-half cup of sugar together, add almost drop by drop four tablespoonfuls of milk and one cup of flour; spread on the bottom of a buttered pan as thin as possible. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, mark in squares and bake in a moderate oven.

Snow Ball Cakes

Bake angel or bride's cake in small round gem pans. Cover with a boiled icing flavored with lemon and put a piece of candied ginger in the center of each