lespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful rolled oats
1/2 cupful molasses
2 teaspoonfuls salt
1/2 yeast cake
1/2 cupful lukewarm water
Flour

Add boiling water to oats and allow to stand one hour; add molasses,
salt, Crisco, yeast cake dissolved in lukewarm water, and flour to
make stiff dough; knead well, let rise, knead a very little, divide
into two Criscoed bread pans, let rise again and bake forty minutes in
moderate oven.

Sufficient for two small loaves.

Rose Leaves

1 cupful sugar
6 tablespoonfuls Crisco
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful rose extract
2 cupfuls flour

Cream Crisco, adding sugar gradually, then stir in eggs well beaten;
add salt, extract, and flour. The dough should be soft. Now chill
dough, then roll very thin, using sugar instead of flour, to dust
rolling-pin and board. Cut out with small fancy cutter. Place on tins
greased with Crisco and bake in moderate oven eight or ten minutes or
until slightly browned.

Sufficient for fifty small cakes.

Rye Muffins

1 cupful flour
2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
1 cupful ryemeal
2 tablespoonfuls brown sugar
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 egg
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 cupful milk

Sift flour, meal, baking powder, and salt together. Beat egg and sugar
together, then add them with milk and melted Crisco. Mix and divide
into Criscoed gem pans and bake in moderate oven twelve minutes.

Sufficient for twelve muffins.

Savarin

1 yeast cake
4 tablespoonfuls sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
5 tablespoonfuls lukewarm water
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoonful salt
3 eggs
2 tablespoonfuls chopped almonds
1 cupful whipped cream

For Syrup

3/4 lb. lump sugar
3 cupfuls water
3 tablespoonfuls lemon juice

_For cake_. Put yeast cake into cup, add 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1
tablespoonful flour, and lukewarm water. Allow to rise ten minutes.
Put flour into basin, add salt, remainder of sugar, almonds, yeast
mixture, eggs well beaten, and Crisco melted and cooled. Beat ten
minutes with wooden spoon. Turn into Criscoed tube mold. Allow to rise
until doubled in size, then bake in quick oven forty-five minutes.
Mold should be sprinkled over with shredded almonds.

_For syrup_. Boil sugar and water for almost forty-five minutes, then
add lemon juice. Soak cake with syrup and when cold serve with cream
in center.

Sufficient for one savarin.

Shortbread Cookies

2-1/2 c