Cookies

"To make them one must have a spark of genius."

Vanilla Cookies

One and one-half cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, roll, sprinkle with sugar, bake quickly.

Cookies

Two cups of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup lard, 1 cup buttermilk, two level teaspoons saleratus. Flavor with lemon, vanilla or cinnamon (essence).

Dark Cookies

One cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup lard, 1 tablespoon soda, dissolved in 3/4 cup boiling water, stir all together, adding 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and a little salt; work the batter stiff with flour.

Sour Cream Cookies

One cup sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, flavor with caraway seed or flavoring.

Marguerites

Take the whites of three eggs, beat stiff and add one pound pulverized sugar. Add a cup of chopped pecan nuts. Spread on thin crackers, and brown slightly in an oven. Stack on a plate and serve with cheese.

Fruit Cookies

One and one-half cups brown sugar, one scant cup butter, 1/2 cup molasses, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup durrants, 1 teaspoon cloves, ginger, cinnamon and allspice; flour to mix soft.

Columbia Cookies

Two cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 3/4 cup sweet milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar: flavor to taste; cream the butter and sugar; add the milk and eggs beaten very light; sift the soda and cream of tartar into flour; have it as soft as you can handle; roll thin; sprinkle with sugar; bake in quick oven.

Chocolate Cookies

Two squares Baker's chocolate boiled until thick with 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 tablespoon of lard, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda; to this add chocolate and two cups flour or more if needed; roll, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in quick oven.

Scotch Cookies

One cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 2/3 cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon saleratus, nutmeg; rub sugar, flour and shortening together; then add other ingredients.

Boston Cookies

One cup butter, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, l 1/2 tablespoon boiling water, 3 1/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon, 1 cup chopped English walnuts, 1/2 cup currants, 1/2 cup seeded chopped raisins; cream the butter and sugar, add the well beaten eggs, add soda dissolved in water, half the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon, then add nut meats, fruit and remaining flour; drop by spoonfuls 1 inch apart on a buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven.

Cookies

One-half cup molasses, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little' cold water, 1 cup raisins seeded and chopped, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoon of all kinds of spices, flour to roll. These will keep a long time if you hide the cooky jar.

Jumbles

Three cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet cream, 5 cups flour, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup cocoanut.

Coffee Cake

Two cups brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 3 eggs well beaten, 1 cup milk, 3 teaspoons baking powder, salt, flour enough to make a stiff dough, and roll about 1/2 inch thick; sift on ground cinnamon evenly and thick over it; then roll up like jelly cake; cut in slices 1/2 inch thick, lay them in granulated sugar, and bake quickly, sugared side up. This will make about 45 cakes.

Sour Cream Cookies

One cup sugar, 2 eggs, l 1/2 cup flour, 1 cup sour cream, 1 level teaspoon soda, a pinch of salt. Flavor to suit.

Grandmother's Ginger Cookies

Take 1 cup molasses, 1 cup soft sugar, 2 eggs, 2/3 cup butter and lard mixed, 1/2 cup sour milk and cream mixed, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, salt, good teaspoon soda and flour to mix soft.

Mary's Cookies

Take 2 scant cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar sifted with flour, salt and nutmeg. Mix soft.

Frosted Creams

One cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup lard, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk in which is dissolved one dessertspoon of saleratus, 1 dessertspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon salt, flour to roll. Cut in squares 1/4 of an inch thick and bake.

Frosting

1 1/2 cup of sugar; put with this 2 teaspoons of water, let it boil on back of stove until it threads, then add whites of 2 eggs slightly beaten; add 2 teaspoons of lemon.

Fruit Cookies

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter 3/4 cup sour milk, 2 cups stoned and chopped raisins, 1 cup of English currants, 1/2 cup citron, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon saleratus. Spice as for fruit cake. Roll the dough thicker than for cookies without fruit.

Wine Drops

One cup each of sugar, molasses, melted lard and coffee, 1 egg and pinch of salt, 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves, 2 teaspoons soda, 5 cups flour, 1 cup chopped raisins.

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Two cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon soda, a litttle salt; flour to mix soft.

Sugar Cookies

Two cups C sugar, 3 eggs, 2/3 cup butter, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 4 tablespoons of boiling water, nutmeg; flour enough to make soft dough.

Brown Sugar Cookies

Two cups light brown sugar, 1 cup butter and fresh lard mixed, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in 4 tablespoons of warm water, flour to roll.

Sugar Cookies

Three eggs, 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon saleratus dissolved in 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla; flour to knead soft.