One pound of sugar.

One pound of butter.

One and one-half pound of flour.

Four eggs.

One table-spoonful of brandy.

Rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the eggs, well beaten, then the brandy and then the flour, sifting the latter very lightly. Roll out the dough, sifting pulverized sugar on the board to keep it from sticking, and bake quickly. These cookies will be very soft when rolled out. If not desired so sweet, use flour when rolling the dough instead of sugar. This is a delicious but rather expensive way to make cookies.

Mother's jumbles.

Three eggs.

One cupful of sugar.

Two-thirds cupful of butter.

Flour to thicken.

Three table-spoonfuls of milk.

Two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder.

One tea-spoonful of nutmeg (if liked).

Cream the butter and sugar together, and add in their order the beaten eggs, milk, powder, nutmeg and flour. Caraway seed may be substituted for the nutmeg, if desired, being particularly popular with children. Sprinkle granulated sugar over the sheet of cake dough just before cutting the jumbles out, passing the rolling-pin lightly over all.