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Take one pound of butter one pound of sugar, yolks of six eggs, hard-boiled, and flour enough to make a dough that is not too stiff. Dissolve three cents worth of ammonia (hartshorn) in scalded milk. Place the ammonia in a large bowl and pour one cup of scalding milk over it. After this has […]

(Sufficient for 1-1/2 Dozen Cookies) 1 c. shortening 1 c. sugar 1 egg 1/2 c. milk 3 c. flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. vanilla Cream the shortening and add the sugar gradually. Next add the beaten egg and the milk. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together and add

Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one-half cup sour cream, one-fourth teaspoon soda, two eggs; mix as soft as you can; roll thin, and bake quick. Make an icing of whites of four eggs, one pound of sugar, and as much grated or desiccated cocoanut as you can stir in. Spread on cookies after they

Two cups sugar, one-third cup lard, and two-thirds cup butter; mix like pie crust. Three eggs, three tablespoons water, one small teaspoon soda sifted with sugar; add enough flour to roll. Roll very thin.

Two cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of butter, one-half cup of lard, four tablespoons of water, one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of cream tartar, a pinch of salt, and nutmeg, or vanilla.

Three eggs, not separated, beaten with one cup of sugar, one cup of honey, one cup of blanched almonds chopped finely, one teaspoon each of allspice, cloves, and cinnamon, one cup of chocolate and flour enough to make a thick batter; one teaspoon of baking-soda. Spread very thin on square, buttered pans, bake in a

One pound of real honey, not jar; one cup of granulated sugar, four eggs, one tablespoon of allspice, three tablespoons of salad-oil, four cups of flour, well sifted; three teaspoons of baking-powder. Warm up or heat honey, not hot, just warm. Rub yolks well with sugar, beat whites to a froth, then mix ingredients, add

Beat the white of one egg; add one-half cup of sugar with a flavoring of vanilla, fold in one cup of shredded cocoanut, drop by teaspoonfuls on a well-greased baking-pan, inverted, and bake for about ten or twelve minutes in a slow oven. Remove from pan when cookies are cold.

Take ten boiled eggs and two raw ones, one pound of best butter, half a pound of almonds, one lemon, some cinnamon one wineglass of brandy, one pound of pulverized sugar and about one pound and a half of flour. This quantity makes one hundred cookies, and like fruit cake, age improves them, in other

Mix into a half pound of confectioner’s sugar the yolks of six eggs. Work this mixture with a spoon until very light and frothy; then mix into it the whites of six eggs that have been beaten stiff, adding at the same time a quarter of a pound of flour, dried and sifted. Place this