One cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups molasses
1 cup sour milk
1 teaspoonful cinnamon
2 tablespoonfuls ginger
1 teaspoonful salt
2 teaspoonfuls soda
1 cup raisins, flour

Mix as soft as possible. Roll out and cut.

Half cup granulated sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup lard, a little salt, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful each ginger and cinnamon, 6 tablespoonfuls vinegar, 4 tablespoonfuls hot water into which put 4 teaspoonfuls of soda. Thicken with flour, roll out not too thin and bake.

One cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup lard, 1/2 cup hot water, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 cups bran, 2 eggs. Drop on greased pans.

One cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoonful soda
1 teaspoonful Royal baking powder
salt and nutmeg.

Mix soft. Make a filling of 1 cup raisins, 1/2 cup chopped nut meats, 1/2 cup water, 1 cup sugar. Cook until thick, spread between cookies and bake in moderately hot oven.

Two cups white sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup butter. Cream butter and sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, salt and nutmeg.

Melt butter size of egg, stir in 2 ounces Baker's chocolate, broken in small pieces. Stir until all is smooth. Then add 1 cup light brown sugar, 2 unbeaten eggs, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, 1 cup of flour, in which 1 teaspoonful Royal baking powder has been stirred. Then flour fingers and make in balls size of hickory nut. Put in greased pans, leaving room to spread. Bake slowly.

One cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup raisins, 3/4 cup sour milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1/2 cup nut meats.

One cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup raisins, 3/4 cup sour milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1/2 cup nut meats.

Two cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup butter 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful lemon extract or 1/2 a nutmeg, grated; flour enough to make a dough as soft as it can be rolled.

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 cup raisins, 2 good cups flour, 1/2 cup nut meats, 1/4 teaspoonful cloves and nutmeg. Drop.