Date Cookies

Have ready a cupful of sugar, half a cupful of butter, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, two cupfuls of flour, the yolk of an egg, a cupful of chopped dates, and enough milk to moisten. Cream the butter and sugar and add the egg yolk beaten with a little milk. Add the dates and the mixture of moist ingredients. Add more milk if the dough is too stiff to roll out. Cut out thin cookies and bake. As this rule makes as many as sixty cookies, the dough for variety's sake may be divided into several parts and each part flavored in a different fashion, chopped dates being used in only one portion. Another • may be flavored with orange, a third with lemon, and a fourth with chocolate. Cocoanut may be used in the fifth. Orange rind and cocoanut together will make delicious cookies.

Black Rocks

One and a half cupfuls of brown sugar, a scant cupful of shortening, three eggs, half a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, three-fourths of a cupful of raisins cut in small pieces, half a cupful of chopped walnut meats, one teaspoonful of vanilla, five tablespoonfuls of hot water, one teaspoonful of soda, and one teaspoonful of baking powder stirred into three cupfuls of flour. Beat well and drop from a spoon onto buttered pans. Bake in a moderate oven.

Chocolate Crisps

Turn into a mixing bowl three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, a pinch each of ground cinnamon and nutmeg, half a cupful of brown sugar, and half a cupful of mixed shortening and butter (melted). Mix these ingredients thoroughly and then add half a cupful of thick sour cream in which a scant teaspoonful of baking soda has been dissolved, and sufficient sifted pastry flour to form a cooky dough; roll out on the bread board into a very thin sheet and with a cutter stamp into thin wafers; dust these lightly with grated sweet chocolate and bake in a quick oven for about seven minutes.

Butter Cakes

One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of brown sugar, three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon, and one egg. Cream butter and sugar, add cinnamon and egg, add a little flour at a time, knead until well mixed, roll out on a cake board one-quarter of an inch thick, cut with cake cutter. Bake in a hot oven until brown. These are delicious with afternoon tea.

Buttermilk Cookies

Cream two cupfuls of sugar and one cupful of butter, add one cupful of buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, spices or flavoring to taste, and flour sufficient to roll.

Lace Cakes

Mix thoroughly together one tablespoonful of melted butter, one cupful of granulated sugar, two well-beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of vanilla, a little grated nutmeg, and two and a half cupfuls of oatmeal into which have been stirred two and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Have the batter quite stiff and drop by the teaspoonful on a buttered baking sheet, having them about an inch apart. Bake in a moderate oven until crisp and brown on the edges.