Delicacies

Sift dry ingredients; add beaten eggs and milk also potatoes. Add melted shortening and enough flour to roll. Have fat for frying heated until a cube of bread becomes golden brown in 60 seconds. — Mrs. Eddie Simpson. Russian Rocks \y2 cups brown sugar meg 1 cup butter or substitute 1 tsp. cinnamon, pinch 3 eggs (beaten in whole) of salt 1 tsp. soda dissolved in a 1 cup raisins little hot water 1 cup English walnuts y tsp. allspice, cloves nut- 2^4 cups flour Mix well and drop with teaspoon on buttered tin, and bake in moderate oven. — Mrs. E. F. Hoover. Brown Sugar Cookies 2 cups brown sugar Pinch salt 1 cup Crisco and butter 1 level tbsp. soda 3 cups flour 1 level tbsp. cream of tartar 2 eggs Cream shortening and sugar, add well beaten eggs. Sift salt, soda, cream of tartar and flour several times and add to mixture. Mix till very stiff, then roll and cut real thin. — Mrs. Russell Bossom. Polly's Cakes. 2 eggs beaten 1 cup brown sugar / y2 cup flour y2 tsp. baking powder y^^*- 1 cup nut meats Raisins if desired Bake in muffin tins and frost — Mrs. Lester Wilson. —110— Cookies and Small Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Chocolate Cup Cakes 1 cup sugar Yz tsp. soda Yt, cup butter V/z cups flour 1 cup sour cream 2 squares chocolate 2 eggs 2 tsp. baking powder Cream sugar and butter, add well beaten yolks, cream (soda beaten in), and melted chocolate. Sift flour and baking powder several times and add to mixture. Lastly fold in beaten whites with pinch of salt. Bake in muffin tins. — Mrs. Russell Easom. One Egg Cup Cakes 1 egg in cup — fill cup 2 cups flour with milk 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup sugar % tsp. salt 1-3 cup Crisco or any short- 2 tsp. baking powder ening Mix sugar and shortening, add all other ingredients and beat well — makes a dozen large cup cakes. Bake in oven 355 degrees F. — 30 minutes. — Mrs. Roger Norris Howe. Filled Cookies 1 cup sugar 1 egg Y cup shortening 2 tsp. cream of tartar Yi cup nrlk 1 tsp. soda 2^2 cups flour 1 tsp. vanilla Roll thin and put the cookies in pan, then put a teaspoon of filling on each cookie. Place another one on top and bake. Filling. Cook together: Y* CUP sugar 1 cup chopped raisins Y* CUP water 1 cup chopped nuts 1 tsp. flour — Mrs. Richard Barthelmess. —120— Thursday Club Delicacies Cookies and Small Cakes Pecan Cookies 2 cups brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup butter or lard 1 cup pecan nuts 2 eggs 3 or 4 cups flour 2 tsp. soda (enough to make real 1 tsp. cream of tartar stiff) Mix and mold into a roll and chill over night in an ice box. In the morning slice into cookies and bake. Other nuts may be used instead of pecan nuts. Dough will keep about a week — bake as needed. — Mrs. Donald McLcish. Fudge Cake 2 oz. chocolate x/i tsp. salt Yi cup butter *4 tsP- baking powder 3 eggs 1 cup nuts 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla Y$ cup flour Melt butter and chocolate together. Beat eggs very light, slowly add the melted mixture to the eggs. Add dry ingredients— add nuts and flavoring. Bake in well buttered shallow tin for 20 minutes in slow oven. — Mrs. William IVoottcrs, Jr. Mocha Cakes