The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book

Beat whites of eggs stiff, add sugar and beat again. Then stir in pecans and dates. Drop from teaspoon in buttered pan and bake in a slow oven until delicate brown. MISS ZULA MAE HILL. Fruit Cookies. 2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1 cup butter; 1 cup raisins; 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk ; 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in the sour milk; 1 teaspoonful each of nutmeg and cloves; flour enough to roll. MRS. H. K. ALLEN BERG . MRS. ALB. STAATS. — 102 — Fruit Cookies. 1 cupful of butter; 2 cupfuls of sugar; % cupful sweet milk; 3 cupfuls of flour; 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder; 4 eggs; 2 cupfuls of currants; 2 of raisins; 2 of pecans; y2 cup of orange-peel; 1 wine glass of whiskey or wine; 2 tablespoonfuls each of cinnamon and all kinds of spices. Make up as any cake, flouring the fruit as for fruit cake. Make a stiff batter and drop on pan from spoon. These little cakes are delicious.. MRS. FELIX W. MAIER, White Lebkuchen. 1 lb sugar; 4 eggs; 2 cupfuls pecans; *4 teaspoonful of cloves; y2 teaspoonful nutmeg. Stir sugar and eggs for one half hour (adding one egg at a time) ; then add cloves, nutmeg and pecans, also flour enough to make the dough stiff enough to roll out and cut. Bake a light brown. MRS. W. J. JUNG. Hermits. 1 cup of butter; iy2 cups of sugar; 3 eggs; y2 cup of molasses; 1 teaspoonful soda; 1 cup of each, raisins and currants; 1 cup pecans; 1 teaspoonful of each ginger, cloves, cinnamon and allspice; flour enough to roll out soft. MRS. ED. OEHLER. Hermits. 2 cups of sugar; 1 cup of butter; 1 cup of stoned and chopped raisins; 3 eggs; y2 teaspoonful of soda, — 103 — dissolved in 3 tablespoon sful of milk; 1 nutmeg; 1 teaspoonful of cloves and cinnamon; 5 cups of flour. MRS. W. H. KUSENBERGER, MRS. AD. SCHMIDT. Ginger Snaps. 2 cups sugar; 1 egg; 1 cup molasses; 1 tablespoon ginger; 1 cup butter or lard; 1 cup hot water; 1 teaspoon soda,dissolved in water; flour enough to roll out. MRS. A. KUENEMANN. Macaroons. 1 lb finely chopped pecans; 1 ib sugar; unbeaten whites of 4 eggs; grated rind of y2 lemon or a little cinnamon. Mix the ingredients, drop by teaspoonfuls on a well greased tin and bake in a moderate oven. MRS. CHAS. NIMITZ. Lebkuchen. 1 lb dark brown sugar; 14 gal. black molasses; 1/4 lb butter; 1/4 lb citron; 1/4 glass whiskey; 1% lb of pecans; iy2 teaspoonfuls of cooking soda; 1 tablespoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice; grated rind of 1 orange and 2 lemons; 1/2 lb of flour to start. Flour, spices, peeling mixed. Pecans not chopped. Let molasses come to a boil, melt in butter and sugar, let this cool off, add whiskey and soda, pour over dry part mixing quickly and add flour to make good stiff dough. Let stand until next day. Add flour to roll out, bake and ice. — 104 — Pecan Macaroons. 1 lb of pecans; 14 lb citron; % lb sugar; grated peel of one orange ; 1 nutmeg ; 1 teaspoon cinnamon ; whites of 6 eggs; beaten yolks of one; 1 teaspoon baking powder; flour enough to make it roll easily; 1 wine glass brandy. Brush with yolks before baking. Oatmeal Cookies (Without Eggs). 1 cupful sugar; 1 cupful molasses; 1 cupful lard; Sy2 cupfuls flour; 4 cupfuls of uncooked oatmeal; 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon. Dissolve 2 teaspoonfuls of soda in V2 cup boiling water. Mix well and form small cookies with the hand.