light yellow-brown. Beat whites of eggs
very stiff, mix all ingredients together, then drop with a spoon on
tins waxed with bees' wax, and bake in a quick oven.

"SPRINGERLES" (GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKES)

4 eggs.
1 pound sifted pulverized sugar
2 quarts flour, sifted twice.
2 small teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Beat whites and yolks of eggs separately, mix with sugar and beat
well. Add flour until you have a smooth dough. Roll out pieces of
dough, which should be half an inch thick. Press the dough on a
floured form or mold, lift the mold, cut out the cakes thus designed
and let lie until next day on a floured bread board. The next day
grease pans well, sprinkle anise seed over the pans in which the cakes
are to be baked; lay in cakes an inch apart and bake in a moderate
oven to a straw color. The form used usually makes six impressions or
cakes 1-1/2 inches square, leaving the impression of a small figure or
flower on surface when dough is pressed on form.

OATMEAL COOKIES

1 cup sugar.
1 cup butter and lard, mixed (scant measure).
1 cup chopped nut meats.
1 cup chopped raisins.
2 eggs, beaten separately, whites added last.
1 teaspoonful baking soda dissolved in 4 tablespoonfuls sour milk.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
Little grated nutmeg.
2 cups oatmeal (uncooked).
2 cups white flour.

Drop with tablespoon on well-greased baking sheet over which has been
sifted a little flour. Bake in rather quick oven. This recipe makes 65
small cakes.

PEANUT BISCUITS

Sift together 2 cups flour and 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Add 1
egg, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup peanuts and pecan nut meats, mixed (run
through food-chopper), 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1/2 teaspoonful salt. Beat
sugar and yolk of egg together add milk, stiffly beaten white of egg,
chopped nut meats and flour, alternately. Add salt. Place a large
spoonful in each of 12 well-greased Gem pans. Allow to stand in pans
about 25 minutes. Bake half an hour.

PLAIN COOKIES

1/2 cup butter.
4 tablespoonfuls milk.
1 cup sugar.
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg.
2 eggs.
1/2 cup chopped walnut meats.
3 cups flour.
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar, add milk slowly, add well-beaten eggs. Beat
well, add flour and baking powder, sifted together. Roll thin. Cut
with a small cake cutter any desired.

WALNUT ROCKS

Cream together 1-1/2 cups of sugar, 1/2 cup of butter, a small
teaspoonful of salt. Dissolve 1 teaspoonful of soda in 4
tablespoonfuls