Delicacies

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs which have been well beaten, then add the chocolate. Mix all other dry ingredients and add them alternating with the milk. Add flavoring last. Drop on a slightly buttered pan, using a teaspoon for each cookie and putting each in a pan at least an inch apart. — Mrs. Noble M. Anderson. —116— Thursday Club Delicacies Cookies and Small Cakes My Grandmother's Sugar Cookies. 1 cup sugar 1 cup shortening 2 eggs Yz cup sour milk 1 scant tsp. soda Yz tsp. salt Flour to make a soft dough 's tsp. nutmeg which can be handled Cream sugar and shortening, add well beaten eggs, salt, nutmeg, sour milk into which the soda has been stirred, and then flour. Roll thin and sprinkle sugar on top cut, and bake in hot oven. If kept in a air tight container will last indefinitely. — Mrs. W . Bickerton. Butterscotch or Ice Box Cookies 2 cups brown sugar 1 level tsp. soda 2 eggs 1 level tsp. cream of tartar 1 cup shortening Salt 4 cups flour mixed with Mix all together well and add : 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped nuts (very fine) Mix well and make into rolls 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Let stand in the ice-box over night — then slice and bake in a quick oven. — Mrs. Herman Jacobson. Date Sticks Sift together: 1 cup of nuts (not cut 1 cup sugar too fine) 1 cup flour 1 cup dates (cut into l/z tsp. baking powder small pieces) Pinch of salt Beat 2 eggs slightly and mix with the rest 1 tsp. vanilla Bake 20 minutes and while hot cut and roll in powdered sugar. Hot oven at first and gradually cool down. — Mrs. Richard Barthelmess. —117— Cookies and Small Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Brown Sugar Ice Box Cookies 4 cups brown sugar 1 tbsp. soda 4 eggs beaten 1 tbsp. vanilla 1 cup melted butter 1 cup of nuts 2 tbsp. cream tartar 7 cups of flour Melt butter, pour over sugar and cream together. Add e jgs, vanilla and then dry ingredients. Mix and roll into loaf, Let stand overnight in ice box. In morning slice and bake. Makes 50 cookies. — Mrs. Lester Wilson. Fruit Snaps iy2 cups sugar 1 cup raisins 1 cup shortening 1 tsp. each cloves, cinnamon. 3 eggs, unbeaten allspice Y cup molasses 1 tsp. soda Z]/2 cups pastry flour 1 tsp. salt Cream shortening, sugar and salt together. Add spices, then the eggs, one at a time, next the raisins and molasses. Last, flour sifted with soda. Drop teaspoonfuls on greased baking pans. Flatten with spatula. Put nut meat in center of each. Bake in moderate oven (350) about 10 to 15 minutes. This makes about 100 cookies. — Mrs. Harvey H. Hile. Assorted Cookies Yi cup butter 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup sugar J^ tsp. nutmeg 2 eggs Ya tsp. salt 2y2 cups flour Y2 tsp. lemon extract Cream butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, milk and lemon extract. Mix dry ingredients and add to the first mixture. Put in ice box or cool until thoroughly chilled when mixture should become quite stiff. For sand tarts, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar before rolling out, nuts and currants can be added the same way as well as cocoanut. — Mrs. Lloyd A. Kennell. —118— Thursday Club Delicacies Cookies and Small Cakes Potato Donuts 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 3 eggs <"1 tsp. nutmeg % cup sweet milk 3 tsp. shortening 2l/2 cups flour 1 cup warm mashed 3 tsp. baking powder potatoes