Date Bars
One cup dates
1 cup nut meats, ground
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful Royal baking powder
4 tablespoonfuls flour
1 cup powdered sugar
Spread on greased paper in dripping pan. Bake 40 minutes in slow oven. When cold cut in strips and roll in powdered sugar.
Mother's Sugar Cookies
One cup butter, creamed
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, thoroughly beaten
Add to this 4 1/4 cups flour, sifted four times with 2 rounding teaspoonfuls Royal baking powder, 1 teaspoonful each of lemon, vanilla and orange extract.
Drop from teaspoon 3 inches apart on buttered sheet. Sprinkle with sugar and put on each nut meat or Sultana raisin.
Makes 7 dozen and will keep indefinitely.
Chocolate Cookies
One cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sweet milk
2 eggs
3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoonfuls soda
salt
nuts
vanilla
Bake in a sheet and cut in strips while hot.
Fine Molasses Cookies
One cup sugar, 1 cup lard, 1 cup molasses, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful ginger, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, flour. Roll.
Oatmeal Cookies
Three-quarters cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
1 teaspoonful soda
1 cup raisins
2 cups oatmeal
2 cups flour
Fruit Cookies
Two cups white sugar
1 cup shortening
salt
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup sour milk
1 teaspoonful soda
1 package raisins, chopped fine
1 teaspoonful nutmeg
Mix rather soft and roll.
Rocks (Drop Cookies)
One and a half cups brown sugar
1 cup butter (or lard and butter mixed)
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water
1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup nut meats
3 cups flour
Drop into pan in teaspoonfuls.
Crumb Cookies
Two and a half cups flour
2 eggs
1 cup molasses
1 cup raisins
2 teaspoonfuls (level) soda
1 cup shortening
2 1/2 cups crumbs
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon
2 teaspoonfuls cloves
2 teaspoonfuls salt
1 cup nut meats
Date Cookies
Two cups flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful cloves
1 teaspoonful soda
1 1/2 cups chopped dates
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Mix and add 2 eggs, beaten, with 4 tablespoonfuls water and 1/2 cup Mazola oil. Drop by small spoonfuls on oiled pan.
Cornflake Macaroons
Three eggs, whites beaten light
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, beat again
1 1/2 cups cocoanut, beat again
3 cups corn flakes, beat again
1. Drop by spoon on greased paper. 2. Bake 15 minutes.