Delta Gamma cook book

1 heaping teaspoon baking powder mixed in 1 cup flour Add a bit more flour if necessary. Roll very thin. Marion Gaylord (Lambda Nu). Date Bars 1 cup sugar 1 pound dates 3 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup walnuts 1 teaspoon baking powder Combine egg yolk with sugar, stir until creamy, add pinch salt. Mix flour and baking powder. Add dates, stoned and quartered. Beat egg whites stiff, add alternately with flour. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Remove from pan, when almost cold cut into bars and roll in powdered sugar, or ice with orange frosting and decorate with nut meats and dates. Mabel D. Ricketts. Drop Cookies 1 cup sugar, preferably brown }/2 cup butter, drippings, or substitute 1 cup raisins, dates or prunes, cooked 1 cup walnuts 2 eggs, well beaten V/i cups flour Yi teaspoon soda, dissolved in hot water 1 teaspoon cinnamon \i teaspoon each, cloves, nutmeg Mix ingredients in order given, creaming fat first, and adding sugar, then eggs, dry ingredients. Prunes keep the cookies moist and are nice change from dates or raisins. Margaret Monroe Williamson (Lambda). Easiest Cookies in the World 1 cup flour 2 eggs 1 cup walnut meats pinch salt 1 cup sugar Drop from spoon. • Eleanor Simpkins (Pi). Filled Cookies 3^ cup butter and lard 2Y2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons cream tartar 1 egg 1 teaspoon soda Y2 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Roll thin, cut round and put in pan. Put one heaping teaspoon filling on each and place another circle on top. Press edges together. Filling 13^ cups chopped raisins or figs, or dates Yi cup sugar Y2 cup water Boil until thick. Bake in moderate oven. Marguerite T. Way (Lambda Nu). Filled Cookies 3 eggs 1 teaspoon soda, sifted in flour 1 cup butter salt 1 cup sour cream flour 1 cup white sugar 2 cups brown sugar Filling for Cookies 1 pound chopped dates, or raisins 1 cup sugar 1 cup water May need a teaspoon of flour. Boil until it forms a rather thick filling. Roll out cookies, put a teaspoon of filling on, then put another cookie on top. Do not have cookies rolled too thick. Ruth Kautsky (Alpha Zeta). Fruit Cookies 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in % cup butter 1 tablespoon hot water 2 cups flour 1 cup walnuts 2 eggs 1 cup dates or figs 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon Drop by small teaspoonfuls into buttered tins. Ruth Thomburgh (Gamma). Fruited Cookies 1 cup butter \ , , . } cream ly2 cups sugar J 3 eggs, beaten light 13^ tablespoons hot water with 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon }/2 teaspoon salt 3^ cup nutmeats, chopped }/2 cup raisins, chopped }/2 cup currants, chopped Syz cups flour Roll thin and bake in quick oven. Marguerite Way (Lambda Nu). Fruit and Nut Cookies 1^ cups brown sugar 1 cup nuts 1 cup butter 2]/^ cups flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3/^ cup cold coffee 1 nutmeg \}/2 cups raisins 3^ teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon soda in coffee Mix as for a cake and drop from a spoon into pans. Bake in a quick oven. Raisins, currants, walnuts, dates or figs may be added. Florence Klinkenberg (Xi). Ginger Cookies 1 pint molasses Let come to a boil, then add, 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon soda little salt 1 tablespoon ginger After it cools, thicken with flour. Roll thin and bake. Julia B. Gould (Lambda Nu). Ginger Snaps