t, and sugar together, then rub in
Crisco with finger tips, add egg well beaten, and soda mixed with
milk. Dough should be soft and little more milk can be added if
needed. Roll out lightly and handle as little as possible. Cut with
biscuit cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in hot oven ten minutes.

Sufficient for thirty biscuits.

Chocolate Brownies

1 cupful sugar
6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 eggs
2 squares chocolate
1/3 teaspoonful salt
1/2 cupful flour
1 cupful chopped English walnut meats
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
3 tablespoonfuls boiling water

Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, chocolate
dissolved in boiling water, salt, flour, vanilla, and nuts. Divide
and spread thin in 2 Criscoed square pans and bake in slow oven from
twenty to twenty-five minutes. Cut in strips and serve with ice cream.
These are a cross between cookies and heavy cake.

Sufficient for fifty brownies.

Chocolate Wafers

1 cupful sugar
5 tablespoonfuls Crisco
2 cupfuls flour
1/4 cake chocolate
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoonful baking soda
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoonful salt

Cream Crisco and sugar together, add chocolate melted, eggs well
beaten, vanilla extract, flour, salt, and soda. Mix and turn out on to
floured baking board. Roll out thin, and cut with small cutter. Lay on
Criscoed tin and bake from seven to ten minutes in moderate oven.

Sufficient for forty-six wafers.

Citron Buns

1 yeast cake
6 tablespoonfuls sugar
3/4 cupful Crisco
1/2 cupful raisins
1/4 cupful chopped citron peel
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
1 cupful scalded milk
1 egg
5-1/2 cupfuls flour
1/4 cupful lukewarm water
1 teaspoonful salt

Scald milk, add half of sugar and salt; when lukewarm add yeast
dissolved in water and 1-1/2 cupfuls flour. Mix, cover, and let rise
till light; then add Crisco, remainder of sugar and flour, raisins,
peel, and extract. Knead lightly, cover, and let rise. Divide into
small pieces, let rise on greased tins, brush over with beaten egg and
bake in hot oven twenty minutes.

Sufficient for twenty-two buns.

Coffee Bread

3/4 cupful milk
1/2 cupful melted Crisco
1/2 cake compressed yeast
1 teaspoonful salt
2 eggs
1 cupful sugar
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
1/4 cupful chopped English walnut meats
Flour

Heat milk slightly, then add flour to make batter and yeast dissolved
in