Delta Gamma cook book

1 cup molasses 2 teaspoons ginger 3^ cup sugar 1 teaspoon soda ^ cup softened butter (part lard may be used) flour enough to make a thin dough Heat molasses and pour over sugar. Then add other ingredients and bake quickly. Dorothy Mill (Phi). Ginger Snaps }/2 cup granulated sugar 1 level teaspoon soda ]/2 cup molasses 3 teaspoons ginger ]/^ cup melted lard 3 cups flour 3 tablespoons hot water Put soda in with flour. Roll and cut with knife in oblongs and bake in hot oven. Minnie Stinchfield Brown (Lambda Nu). Ice Box Cookies 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon cloves 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt 3 eggs 6}/2 cups flour 1 level teaspoon soda in two tablespoons hot water }4: pound walnuts or almonds, broken up Cream the butter, lard and sugar. Add the other ingredients in their order. This mixes into a stiff dough which you put into a bread tin and stand in the ice box over night. In the morning put the loaf on the bread board and slice in thin slices as you would any meat loaf. Bake on cookie sheet in quick oven. This makes a good many but they keep nicely. Julia Gould (Lambda Nu). Lace Curtain Cookies 1 cup sugar salt 1 tablespoon butter, creamed 23^ cups oatmeal 2 eggs, beaten separately 2 teaspoons baking powder Drop onto tins and bake in hot oven. Unsigned (Kappa). Marshmallow Cookies Rub one-half cup butter to a cream. Add four tablespoons cocoa, yolks three eggs beaten, and one-half cup water. Then incorporate beaten whites of eggs and one and one-half cups flour, sifted with three tablespoons baking powder. Bake in small tins ; when done cover with boiled frosting and press into top of each a marshmallow or two. Ethel Richter Megeath (Lambda). Molasses Cookies 2 cups molasses 1 egg little ginger or cinnamon 10 tablespoons hot water 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons soda 12 tablespoons shortening 5 or 6 cups flour Stir up and let stand an hour before baking. Theodora Carpenter (Lambda). Nut Cookies 2 tablespoons butter }/i teaspoon salt ^ cup sugar Yi cup flour 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon baking powder lemon or vanilla Yi cup finely chopped nuts Cream the butter, add sugar and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt and flour, add to first mixture, then add milk, nuts and flavoring. Drop the mixture from a teaspoon on an unbuttered sheet an inch apart. Bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven. This recipe will make twenty-four cookies. Margaret W. Price (Chi Sigma). Oatmeal Cookies 2Y2 cups oatmeal, ground 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup brown sugar salt Y cup hot water cinnamon 23^2 cups flour yi cup shortening Add all ingredients except flour and water. Pour hot water in mixing dish, then add flour. Roll out thin, cut in strips. If you wish, make a paste of dates and a little water. Spread on strips and bake. Cover with another strip before baking. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Pineapple Cookies ^ cup butter, scant 23^ cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 eggs Y cup pineapple 2 tablespoons cream Y2 cup pineapple juice 2 teaspoons baking powder, heaping 1 teaspoon vanilla