VANILLA COOKIES

Rub one cup of butter and one cup of sugar to a cream Add two eggs and two level teaspoons of baking-powder Flour enough to make a dough. Flavor with vanilla, roll very thin, spread with beaten white of egg and sugar.  

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MAPLE COOKIES

1 egg 1 cupful sugar 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 cupful sour cream 1 teaspoonful baking soda 3 tablespoonfuls hot water 1/2 teaspoonful salt Flour Maple sugar Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, mix well, add cream, salt, soda dissolved in water, and sufficient flour to make of right consistency to drop from

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CHEAP COOKIES

One teaspoonful of baking powder mixed in flour two cups of white sugar one cup of butter one cup of sour milk one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk one cup of chopped hickory nuts Take enough flour to mix very stiff, and bake in a quick oven.

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MOLASSES COOKIES

whites and yolks of two eggs (beaten separately) one cup brown sugar one cup melted lard and butter one cup molasses one dessert spoon of ginger one dessert-spoon soda four tablespoons boiling water flour to stiffen do not roll too thin.

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MANDELCHEN

Blanch two cups of almonds and dry them overnight. Grind very fine, add one-half cup of sugar and enough butter to knead into a very stiff paste. Roll very thin, cut in small rounds, place in baking-tin in moderate oven. When done, roll in grated almonds and powdered sugar.

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NEW YORK COOKIES

Take a half-pint or a tumbler full of cold water, and mix it with half a pound of powdered white sugar. Sift three pounds of flour into a large pan and cut up in it a pound of butter; rub the butter very fine into the flour. Add a grated nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful of

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OATMEAL COOKIES

2 Eggs 1 Cupful of Sugar 1 1/2 Cupfuls of Oatmeal or Rolled Oats 2/3 Cupful of Cocoanut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Salt 1/2 Teaspoonful of Vanilla 2 Tablespoonfuls of Butter Cream the butter and sugar together and add the well-beaten eggs. Add the remainder of the ingredients and drop on a well-greased baking-pan. Bake in

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