Luncheons, breakfasts, simple dinners and carving

Cookies — Delicious — Six eggs, two cups of sugar, one of butter. Cream butter and sugar together, then add the eggs beaten separately. Flavor with lemon or almond. Use flour enough to roll out very thin, cut with a large cutter if you wish them large and with a small one if you wish them small. Bake quickly to a light brown. Doughnuts — Cream two cups of sugar and three eggs together, beat well. Then add two cups of sweet milk, also two tablespoons of melted butter or one of melted lard. Flavor to taste. Stir in flour enough to make them stiff enough to roll out, cut with a doughnut cutter and fry in hot lard. In frying any cake, try a piece of the dough first to see if the fat is the right temperature, and then keep it at an even temperature. White Drops — One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, whites of six eggs, flavor with almond or any flavor you wish. Drop in small tins and bake in a moderate oven. Lady Fingers — One cup of sugar, yolks of four eggs. Beat smooth. Whip the whites of the eggs and add flavor. Then stir in one cup of flour. Roll out on a board, sprinkle with sugar, cut in narrow strips and bake quickly. Be sure not to make them too large. Soft Ginger Bread — One cup of brown sugar, one of molasses, one of butter, one of sour milk, three eggs, a small teaspoon of soda, three cups of flour, make in the same way as cake, only put the soda in the milk. Use self-rising flour ; or plain flour may be used, stir one teaspoon of baking powder in the flour. Use ginger to your own taste, some people like more ginger than others. Ginger Snaps — Use the receipt as for cookies, only add molasses instead of sugar, and use two eggs. Flavor with ginger. White Icing — To the white of one egg use five tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Flavor with lemon, orange, rose water or vanilla. Mix the sugar and white or an egg together by merely stirring. Spread over the. cake. This mixture is nearly transparent and is very pretty. Yellow Icing — This is made the same as white icing, only use the yolks of two eggs to the same amount of sugar. If you wish pink icing take some of the white icing and color it pink. This may make it thin ; if so, add more sugar. Boiled Frosting — To the white of one egg use one cupful of white sugar. Boil the sugar with a small amount of water until it will string in dropping from the spoon. Have the white of an egg beaten stiff. Stir into the boiled sugar briskly and beat until it is thick and cool. Spread over the cake, and let sit in the oven a few minutes until it is dry. Chocolate Frosting — Make the same as boiled icing, only use one-half of a cup of grated chocolate. Fillings for Layer Cake — Use boiled icing, making double quantity. If you wish nut filling have the nuts chopped fine and pour some of the icing over the nuts, spread betwieen the layers. Put icing on the top. Banana filling is made the same way.