The household cook book

1 tablespoon vinegar. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Roll out thin, cut with a small cutter and bake in a quick oven. GINGER NUTS {Without Eggs). i cup lard. 1 cup molasses. h cup brown sugar. 1 teaspoon soda. i cup sour milk or butter- 1 teaspoon ginger, milk. Mix very soft, form into round balls like nuts, and bake in a rather quick oven. COOKIES. i cup lard. 1 cup sour milk, i cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. li cups white sugar. Flour sufficient to make dough. Season with caraway seed or nutmeg to suit the taste. Mix thoroughly; roll very thin; bake quickly. BOSTON TEA COOKIES. 1 teacup butter. ^ teaspoon soda. 3 teacups sugar. Spice to taste. h cup sour milk. Flour enough to roll out 3 eggs. rather stiff. CINNAMON COOKIES. 1 cup butter, heaped. 3 eggs. 2 cups brown sugar, heaped. Flour to roll out; cut in small cakes, and sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar just before baking. COCOANUT COOKIES, i cup butter. i teaspoon soda in a little 1 cup sugar. water. 1 egg. h cocoanut (grated). Flour enough to roll. CREAM COOKIES {Extra). \h cups butter. Flour to roll soft. H cups sugar. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup thin sweet cream. Sprinkle with sugar and 1 egg. cut. CREAM COOKIES No. 2. 1 cup thick sour cream. h teaspoon soda. 1 cup sugar. Flavor with lemon. A pinch of salt. Mix with flour enough to roll; after they are rolled sprinkle with granulated sugar and just pass the rolling pin over again so it will not dust off. GINGER COOKIES. I cup butter. 2 teaspoons soda. 1 cup sugar. 2 heaping teaspoons ginger. 1 cup molasses. A pinch of salt, f cup warm water. Mix rather soft. MOLASSES COOKIES {Without Eggs). i cup melted butter. i teaspoon soda, dissolved m 1 cup New Orleans moias- 2 tablespoons cold water ses. (not more). Add cinnamon, cloves and nutmegs or other spices to taste. Use flour to make stiff enough so that it will just drop off from the spoon. They are nice eaten warm, MOLASSES COOKIES No. 2. Beat together 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sugar and 1 egg\ add I cup of melted lard in which is 1 teaspoon of salt; add 1 teaspoon of soda dissolved in warm water, and 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and ginger; when all are mixed add 1 tablespoon of vinegar, and as much flour as can be mixed in. Roll out thin, and bake in a quick oven. HERMIT COOKIES. h cup butter. Flour to roll soft. H cups sugar. i teaspoon soda, dissolved in 3 eggs. 4 tablespoons water. 1 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. HICKORY NUT COOKIES. i cup butter. Flour enough to roll thin, li cups sugar. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 4 tablespoons milk. 1 cup hickory nut meats 3 eggs, well beaten. chopped rather fine. Bake in a quick oven. ORANGE COOKIES. I cup butter. Flour to roll out. 1 cup sugar. 1 heaping teaspoon baking 3 eggs. • powder. Grated rind of 2 or 3 oranges. ROCKFORD COOKIES, i cup butter. Hour enough to roll out. 1 cup white sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 tablespoons sweet milk. Bake quickly.. VANILLA COOKIES. h cup butter. Flour enough to roll soft. 2 cups sugar. 1 teaspoon cream tartar. 1 cup milk. _ i teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sprinkle on sugar as you roll them out. SOFT COOKIES, i cup butter (scant). 2 eggs, well beaten.