The Carbon County cook book

Oatmeal Cakes. 2 cups sugar, 2 cups lard creamed, 1 lb. raisins, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 glass milk, 1 teaspoon soda, pinch of salt, 4 cups flour, 4 cups dry oatmeal. Cream sugar and lard, mix soda with flour. Drop in pan with a spoon and bake 20 minutes. Walnuts added make them very nice. MRS. B. R. McDONALD. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 level teaspoon nutmeg, 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs well beaten, then milk, nutmeg and baking powder sifted with enough flour to handle well. Fry in grease not too hot at first. MRS. B. R. DEEM. Doughnuts. 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 14 cup sour cream and 114 cups buttermilk mixed, 1 level teaspoon soda, lemon extract or nutmeg for flavoring. Use enough flour to make a soft dough that can be handled. Cut and fry in hot lard. MRS. CHARLES FAUSETT. Oatmeal Cookies. 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup boiling lard, 3 eggs, 1 level teaspoon soda in 14 cup water, 1 level teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, 14 teaspoon salt, 4 box chopped raisins. Mix sugar and oatmeal, pour over the boiling lard and mix. Then add the well beaten eggs, water and soda and other ingredients, and add sufficient flour to make batter as for fruit cake. Drop in dipper and bake i in a quick oven. OLIVE EK MILLBURN. Fruit Cookies. 1 cup chopped English walnuts, 1 cup raisins, 4 eggs, 114 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda. Drop by spoonfulls on buttered tins. Do not roll and cut. MISS DOROTHY SAUER, Helper. Cookies. 1 sieve flour, 1 cup lard, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups buttermilk, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon salt (both level), 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon lemon and vanilla. Mix to a light dough, roll thin and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in moderate oven. 14 pound of raisins may be added if desired. MRS. ADELIA RICHENS. Cocoanut Cookies. 1 cup of sour cream, 14 teaspoon soda dis- © solved in cream, | cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 teaspoon baking powder, flour to make a soft dough. Save 1 egg white to dip cookies in. Dilute this egg white with cold water. After cutting cookies dip in egg white then in sugar and then in cocoanut. Bake in slow oven. CRYSTAL B. GUYMON: Delicious Cream Cookies. 1 cup crisco, 2 cups brown sugar, two-thirds cup cream, 414 cups flour, 1 cup nut meats, 14 cup raisins, 4 eggs, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon lemon. Cream together sugar and well beaten eggs, add cream, nuts and raisins. Add to the flour, salt, baking powder and sift well. Drop from spoon into well oiled tins. "MRS. J. B. JEWKES. Ginger Snaps. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter or lard, 1 cup honey or molasses, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon soda dissolved in one-third cup boiling water. Heat sugar, honey, lard and vinegar in pan to boiling point. Take off and add the other ingredients, put in egg when you put in flour. They cook so quick you have to watch real close. ; MRS. COLEMAN ALLRED, Price. Mamma Ginger Snaps. 14 cup butter and milk, 1 pint molasses, 1 cup lard, 1 egg, 2 quarts flour, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons soda, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Fruit Cake. 3 eggs, 1146 cups sugar, 2 cups cream or 1 cup butter, 1 package raisins, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon allspice, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 14 teaspoon soda, flour to make stiff batter. MRS. GEORGE FRANDSEN.