Domestic science, principles and application

Method. — Cream the butter, add the sugar, and then cream well. Add well-beaten ^%%. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add to the wet. Chill, and roll out J^ inch thick on a floured board. Cut with a knife into diamond shaped pieces. Brush over with the white of an %%%, sprinkle with the cinnamon and 1 tablespoon sugar mixed together. Put three halves of blanched almonds in the center of each tart. Bake on a buttered baking sheet 8 minutes in a slow oven. 6. Chocolate Cookies Method. — Add 3 tablespoonfuls melted chocolate to rule for Sugar Cookies. DROP BATTERS— COOKIES Review proportions for doughs and batters. Reviewoven tests for temperature. Time for baking cookies is 10 to 15 minutes. 1. Chocolate Cookies 1 c. sugar Yi c. melted butter 2 eggs 1 even tsp, soda ^ c. milk 2 c. flour 1 c. raisins and nuts 3 square chocolate 1 tsp. vanilla Method. — Mix the melted butter with the sugar. Add the beaten yolks and melted chocolate to this. Add soda to the milk and then add the milk and 3^ the flour to the sugar and eggs. Mix well. Add the raisins with the remainder of the flour. Add beaten whites and vanilla and beat well. Drop from the spoon to bake on buttered baking sheets. May be frosted with fudge frosting. (Basis for 2 girls, }/i 'rule.) 2. Rocks 13^ c. brown sugar 1 c. butter 3 eggs 3^ tsp. cloves 1 tsp. cinnamon 3 c. flour 2 c. raisins 1/^ c. English walnuts 1 tsp. soda Method. — Cream butter and sugar well. Add the beaten yolks to this; mix spices and soda with the flour and add to the sugar mixture. Flour fruit and nuts and add to mixture. Add the beaten whites and mix well. Drop from spoon and bake 10 minutes. Makes 3 dozen. (Basis for 2 girls, }{ rule.) (218) DROP BATTERS— COOKIES 219 3. Peanut Cookies 3 tbsp. butter 1 egg 1 c. flour 1 tsp. baking powder 3^ c. chopped nuts }4: tsp. salt 3^ tsp. lemon juice Method. — Cream butter well with sugar. Add salt and baking powder to the flour. Add the beaten yolk to the butter and sugar. Then add the flour and nuts. Fold in white of egg, add the lemon juice, and mix stiff enough to drop on greased paper. Bake in a hot oven. Makes 2 dozen cookies. {Basis for 2 girls, }4 rule.) 4. Brownies 3^ c. butter }4 c powdered sugar 3^ c. molasses 1 egg 3^ c. flour 1 c. pecan meats Method. — Cream butter with sugar, add molasses, add the beaten yolk of egg, and beat well; mix nuts with the flour and then add to the rest. Add beaten white of egg. Bake in fancy cake pans. Put nut meats on top of each. (Basis for 2 girls, 3€ rule.) 5. Oatmeal Cookies 1 c. butter 4 tbsp. milk 1 c. sugar 1 tsp. soda 2 eggs 1 tsp. cinnamon 2 c. flour }/2 tsp. cloves 2 c. oatmeal 1 c. chopped raisins Method. — Cream the butter, add the sugar, and cream together well. Put the soda into the milk, put the eggs into the sugar mixture one at a time, beat hard; add the milk, then the flour, oatmeal, cinnamon, cloves, and floured raisins. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake 15 or 20 minutes. FATS AND OILS. FRYING UNCOOKED MIXTURES Definition. — An oil is a fat that is liquid at ordinarytemperatures. Fats that are ordinarily solid become liquid in the presence of heat. Oils become solid at low temperatures