so they will not touch when being baked. Bake
them in a _warm_, not hot, oven. Take from the oven when baked and cut
while still warm into small slices across the roll. Slices should be
about three-quarters of an inch wide. Cover the three sides with the
following icing:

Beat together until smooth and creamy 1 cupful of sweet cream, adding
enough confectioners' sugar to make it spread.

You may expedite the work by preparing raisins and almonds the day
before.

The Professor's wife always served these almond cakes with coffee when
she gave a "kaffee klatch" to her country friends.

"JULY ANN'S" GINGER SNAPS

Two cups of molasses (New Orleans), 1 cup of light brown sugar, 1 egg,
1 tablespoonful of soda, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful
of ginger and about 5-1/2 cups of flour.

Place molasses and sugar in a sauce-pan on the range, cook together
until sugar is dissolved, no longer.

Mix the soda and vinegar and when foamy add to the sugar and molasses
with a portion of the required amount of flour; then add the egg and
the flour remaining. Turn dough out on a well-floured bake-beard, roll
out into a thin sheet and cut out small cakes with a tin cutter. Bake
in a moderately hot oven.

No shortening of any kind was used in these cakes. One hundred cakes
were baked from the above ingredients.

COCOANUT COOKIES

Three cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1
cup of grated cocoanut, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix all
together, sift flour with baking powder, add flour to form a dough
just stiff enough to roll out, no more. Cut with a small tin cake
cutter into round cakes and bake.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Two cups of white sugar, 1 cup of grated, unsweetened chocolate, 2
eggs, 1/2 cup of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with
vanilla. Mix together sugar, butter and eggs, add melted chocolate and
flour to stiffen, just enough flour being used to allow of their being
cut with a cake cutter. The baking powder should have been sifted with
a small amount of flour before adding.

SMALL "BELSNICKEL" CHRISTMAS CAKES

2 cups "A" sugar.
Pinch of salt.
1 cup melted butter.
1 teaspoonful baking soda.
4 eggs.
About 3 cups of flour.

Mix in just enough flour so the cake dough may be rolled out quite
thin on a floured board, using as little flour as possible. Cut out
small cakes and bake lightly in a moderately hot oven.

The butter, when melted, should fill o