Drop Cookies

4 tablespoons butter

1 cup sugar

4 tablespoons sweet milk

2 eggs, beaten

2 cups flour, well rounded 2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup chopped raisins or walnuts 1 teaspoon vanilla Little nutmeg

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, then flour, into which salt and baking powder have been put, then nutmeg, raisins and flavoring. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Drop from teaspoon on buttered tins, leaving a space between each cookie. Bake in moderate oven.

Fruit Cookies No. 1

2 egg

1 cup brown sugar 2/3 cup butter 1/2 cup hot water 1 cup raisins

1 cup currants

1 teaspoon each of soda, salt and cinnamon 1/3 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Mix the whole with enough flour to roll or drop. Bake in moderate oven.

Fruit Cookies No. 2

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon soda

3 tablespoons hot water 1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 cup chopped raisins 1/4 cup chopped currants 1 3/4 white flour

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, soda dissolved in water and one-half the flour with salt and cinnamon. Then add fruit and the rest of the flour. Drop on greased pan and bake in a moderate oven fifteen or twenty minutes.

Graham Cookies

3 cups Graham flour 1 cup sugar

1 cup butter

2 eggs well beaten

4 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon soda (scant) 1 teaspoon nutmeg Salt

Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs and milk, then dry ingredients, previously sifted. Roll thin, cut and bake in moderate oven.

Ginger Cookies

1 egg

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup molasses

1 cup butter or crisco

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in

3 tablespoons hot water Flour

Mix the whole with enough flour to roll out nicely. Bake in moderate oven.

Honey Drop Cookies

1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup sugar

1 cup honey

2 eggs beaten separately

3 tablespoons lemon juice 3 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda Rind of lemon (yellow part only)

Cream sugar and butter, add honey, beaten yolks and flour to which soda has been added, then juice, rind of lemon and beaten whites. Mix, roll thin, cut and bake in moderate oven.

Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup sugar 2 eggs

1 cup butter

5 tablespoons sour milk

2 cups flour

2 cups oatmeal 1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon soda Salt

Beat eggs, add sugar and beat again, then add melted shortening and milk in which soda has been dissolved, salt. Mix well, add flour, oatmeal, chopped raisins well floured. Drop from a teaspoon on a well buttered tin. Bake in moderate oven.

Pinochie Wafers

1 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

4 tablespoons flour 1 cup chopped walnuts Pinch salt

Beat eggs, add sugar, then dry ingredients and nuts. Must be dropped on greased enamel pan allowing room for spreading. Bake until a delicate brown.