COOKIES, CAKES, AND DOUGHNUTS Maple Hermits.
/ cupful maple sugar, / cupful butter, 2/ cupfuls flour, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful milk, / teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, / teaspoonful soda, / cupful currants.
Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in the sugar and spices. Dissolve the soda in the milk, and beat this into the sugar and butter. Add the egg well beaten, finally the flour and currants. Roll out an inch thick, and cut in squares. Bake in a quick oven twelve minutes.
Sugar Cookies.
2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful butter, 3 eggs, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, / teaspoonful cloves.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in the whipped eggs and spices, add the flour gradually, working it in until the dough is stiff enough to roll. Sprinkle flour over a pastry board. Make a ball of the dough, and lay it on the board. Rub the rolling-pin with flour and roll out the dough into a sheet quarter of an inch thick. Cut in round cakes, sift granulated sugar over each, and bake quickly.
Ginger Snaps.
2 cupfuls molasses, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter, 5 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger, 1 tes,spoonful allspice, Stir mols,sses, sugar, and butter to gether in a bowl set in hot wa.ter till very light. Mix in spices and flour, and roll in a thin sheet. Cut into small cakes, and bake quickly.
Chocolate Dominoes.
/ cupful pecan meat, / cupful English-walnut me,at, / cupful figs, / cupful dates, Grated rind 1 orange, 1 tablespoonful orange juice, 1 square Runkel's Chocolate.
Mix the nuts, dates, and figs, and put them through a food chopper. Wet with the orange juice, mix in the grated rind, and roll in a ball. La3r it on the baking board, which has been covered with sifted confection er's sugar, and roll half an inch thick. Cut into shapes the size of a
domino, and spread with melted chocolate. On top lay little rounds cut from blanched almonds to imi tate dominoes.
F Sour-Cream Cookies. — 1 cupful sour cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 cupful sugar, Dash salt, Flour, / teaspoonful nutmeg.
Mix the ingredients with enough flour to roll. Roll thin, and bake a nice brown.
Oklahoma Rocks.
9 cupfuls brown sugar, cupful butter, 3 eggs, Salt, 1 pound chopped nuts, 1 pound raisins, 1 teaspoonful soda in cupful boiling water, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful cloves, Flour to make stiff.
Mix the ingredients as given, and drop in spoonfuls on a greased baking pan.
Egg ,Cookies.
1 cupful sour cream, 1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful soda, Dash salt, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexi can Vanilla, Flour enough to make soft dough.
Mix the cream, sugar, and soda with flour, a dash salt and a little vanilla, then flour enough to roll thin easily without sticking.
Boston Cookies.
1 cupful butter, cupfuls sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, 11 teaspoonfuls hot water, 31 cupfuls flour, teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 cupful chopped walnuts, cupful currants, cupful seeded chopped raisins.
Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually and eggs well beaten. Add soda dissolved in water, half the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinna mon, then add nut meats, fruit, and remaining, flour. Drop by spoonfuls au inch apart on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.—FAN}ns