teaspoon of soda, nutmeg
to taste, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Flour enough to make soft
dough. Roll thin and bake.--Mrs. E. G. Schollander.

GINGER SNAPS.--Heat to boiling point one cup butter, add one cup
molasses, two cups brown sugar, one tablespoon ginger, one tablespoon
cinnamon, one scant teaspoon soda. Take from fire, beat well, add two
eggs. Roll with six cups of flour. Let stand over night.--Mrs. E.
Schollander.

CLARA'S DROP CAKES.--Two cups sugar, two eggs, one cup sweet milk, one
teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, one cup raisins, one cup
shortening, one cup molasses, four cups flour, one teaspoon salt, one
teaspoon cloves, one cup currants. Mix together sugar and shortening,
stir in eggs beaten lightly, add soda dissolved in molasses, cloves,
cinnamon, milk, fruit, mixed with a little of the flour and lastly the
flour and salt sifted together. Drop from teaspoon on greased tin and
bake in moderate oven. This makes quite a large amount.--Clara Monroe.

PEPPER GINGER COOKIES.--One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup
shortening (mixed lard and butter, one tablespoon ginger, 1 fourth
teaspoon (scant) black pepper, one teaspoon soda in one cup boiling
water. Mix with flour enough to roll out, about three large cups. Roll
thin, cut into cookies and bake in greased tins in a moderate oven.
Cheap and good.--Contributed.

OAT MEAL COOKIES WITH DATE FILLING.--One cup of sugar, one cup butter,
creamed together, add two eggs, beat and then add one half of a large
cup of sour milk with one teaspoon soda dissolved in it, two cups of
raw rolled oats and two cups of flour, a little salt. Flavor with
vanilla or lemon and roll and cut into small cookies. Chopped raisins
may be mixed with the dough or a date filling may be used, made as
follows: Boil one pound of stoned dates with one cup of water and one
cup of sugar to a thick paste. Spread a teaspoon of Dates on each
cookie, cover with another cookie, press edges together firmly and bake
in moderate oven.--Mrs. Whitehead.

SOFT MOLASSES COOKIES.--Two cups molasses boiled, one cup lard and
butter put into boiling molasses, two eggs or yolks of four or five,
two cups sugar, one cup sour milk, one half teaspoon nutmeg, one half
teaspoon cloves, one heaping teaspoon each of ginger and cinnamon,
pinch of salt, two heaping teaspoons soda, flour to roll very soft. Do
not let molasses boil more than a minute or two.--Mrs. Paul Leonhardy.

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