Cream Cookies

1egg,

2cupfuls sugar,

1/2 cupful sour cream, 1 cupful butter, 1/2 tea spoonful soda, 4 cupfuls flour. Season with nutmeg and lemon, or caraway seeds.

Mrs. C. F. LaCey.

Walnut Cookies

1 cupful each sugar and molasses, 1/2 cupful butter, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 1/2 cupful sour cream, 1 cupful chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoonful soda. Flour to roll. In place of sour cream, one can use one cupful butter, and one-half cupful Sweet milk.

Nellie M. Ball, San Jose.

Cream Cookies

1 cupful thick sour cream, 1 small teaspoonful soda, 1 cupful sugar, Salt and caraway seed.

Flour to make quite stiff dough.

Mrs. M. C. Jenne, Santa Cruz.

White Cocoanut Cookies

1/2 lb. butter, 3/4 lb. sugar,

1cupful cocoanut,

6 tablespoonfuls water, Flour to stiffen.

Mrs. M. C. Hansen.

Cookies

2cupfuls sugar, 2 eggs,

2 cupfuls of butter (or half lard), 12 tablespoonfuls of sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 1/2 nutmeg, flour to roll.

Mrs. E. L. Baker.

Soft Cookies

2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful butter,

1 cupful sour cream,

3eggs,

1 teaspoonful of soda, 1 tablespoonful vanilla.. Mix very soft with .flour.

Mrs. E. B. Cahoon, Soquel.

Chocolate Cookies

1/2 lb. each chocolate and sugar,

1/4 lb. each butter and chopped citron,

3 eggs,

1teaspoonful cloves,

2teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 1 small glass brandy,

2 pts. flour, a little salt,

1teaspoonful cream tartar, 1/2 teaspoonful soda.

Milk can be used instead of brandy.

Mrs. M. E. Hoole, Pacific Grove.

Crisp Cookies

5 eggs,

2 1/2 cupfuls sugar,

4 teaspoonfuls baking powder,

2 cupfuls butter,

1tablespoonful vanilla, Flour to roll very hard.

Bake in rapid hot oven.

Mrs. E. B. Cahoon, Soquel.

Almond Cookies

One lb. butter, same of sugar and chopped almonds, six eggs, half cupful cold water, one teaspoonful extract of almond. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs to a cream; add chopped almonds and sifted flour to mould and roll out; brush over with little water or milk; after they are cut sprinkle with sugar and chopped nuts. Can be kept for weeks if placed in tight can or jar, and are delicious.

Mrs. C. M. Hansen.

Ammonia Cookies

2cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful butter,

3eggs,

4small teaspoonfuls baking ammonia dissolved in three-fourths of a cupful of sweet cream. Flour to roll out well; roll thin and bake in rapid oven.

Mrs. Geo. Hunter.

Graham Cookies

1 cupful brown sugar,

1 egg

1/2 cupful of beef drippings or suet (measured after it is tried out). Mix together and add one cupful of sour milk or buttermilk, and two cupfuls of graham or whole wheat flour, one even teaspoon-ful of soda, one cupful of chopped fruit (raisins and currants mixed), spices and a little salt. Drop in small spoonfuls in dripping pan which has not been greased. Remove by slipping a thin knife under them while still warm, and lav on a cloth to cool.

Take one cupful of confectioners or xxxx sugar, or if you cannot obtain it ordinary pulverized sugar will do; add a spoonful or more of milk, stirring and adding milk until of consistency to spread. Frost top of cookies very thinly until you have used about one-half the frosting, then to remainder add one teaspoon-ful Van Houten's or Royal Dutch cocoa, a little vanilla, and frost remainder of cookies. This is also a nice frosting for any kind of cake; quickly made and never cracks in cutting nor discolors if kept a long time.

Mrs. H. A. Mitchell, Palo Alto.

Scotch Cookies

3/4 lb. sugar, 1/4 lb. of butter,, 1 lb. of flour. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add flour, only a very little at a time, roll out one-fourth inch thick, and bake slowly.

Mrs. W. C. Waters.

Ginger Or Molasses Cookies

2 eggs, well beaten, 1 cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful ginger, 1 tablespoonful vinegar,

1teaspoonful salt,

Add last one cupful molasses. Flour to make as soft a dough as can possibly be rolled out.

Mrs. 0. S. Trimmer,

Pacific Grove.

Currant Cookies

4 eggs,

2cupfuls sugar,

1 cupful each butter, and currants,

3tablespoonfuls cream,

1/2 grated nutmeg, or may use vanilla. Beat all to a cream; add half a teaspoonful of baking powder and flour enough to roll; dust over them a little pulverized sugar.

Mrs. C. M. Hansen.

Hermits

2cupfuls brown sugar,

1 large cupful butter and lard mixed.

3eggs,

1 cupful seeded raisins,

1/2 teaspoonful soda in a little boiling water, l/2 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon,

1 teaspoonful nutmeg. Salt, flour to roll out.

Mrs. R. L. Porter.