The household cook book

1 cup sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder, i cup milk. i teacup cocoanut stirred in. Mix soft with flour. Roll about i inch thick. Take white of 1 egg beaten stiff, add 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and cover top with this frosting; sprinkle with cocoanut. Bake a light brown in a quick oven. Watch closely as they burn easily. Extra nice. JUMBLES. i cup butter. Flour to roll out. 1 cup sugar. 1 teaspoon baking powder. i cup milk. Bake in a quick oven. COCOANUT JUMBLES. 1 cup butter (scant). 1 cup flour (heaped), li cups pulverized sugar. 1 lb. grated cocoanut. 5 eggs. Drop on tins with tablespoon. CREAM JUMBLES. i cup butter. 3 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2i cups flour. i cup sour cream. i teaspoon soda. HICKORY NUT JUMBLES. 1 cup butter. 2 cups flour. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup hickory nuts. 2 eggs. Drop off a spoon. GINGER BISCUITS. 1 cup butter. 2 eggs. 2 cups sugar. 1 teaspoon baking powder, i cup sweet milk. 1 teaspoon ground ginger. Beat the butter and sugar together; add the eggs and beat again; then add the milk. Have the baking powder and ginger well mixed in a coffee cup of flour; add this and more flour to make a stiff dough. Cut out little cookies and bake. GINGER SNAPS. 1 cup lard. 1 teaspoon soda dissolved 1 cup sugar. in 2 or 3 tablespoons of 1 cup molasses. water. 1 tablespoon ginger. Salt to taste. Stir in flour until the dough can be made into marbles between the palms; flatten and place in tins far enough apart not to touch each other in rising, and bake moderately. These snaps will keep weeks if kept dry; if they become damp they can be dried out and baked again. GINGER SNAPS No. 2. 1 cup butter. 2 teaspoons soda. 2 cups New Orleans 2 tablespoons ginger, molasses. Flour to roll out. 2 eggs. GINGER SNAPS {Without Eggs). i cup lard. i cup water. i cup butter. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 cup sugar. Flour to roll out. 2 cups molasses. SUGAR GINGER SNAPS. 4 tablespoons lard. Flour enough to roll. 3 tablespoons butter. 2 teaspoons ginger. _ 1 cup sugar. i teaspoon soda dissolved i cup water (scant). in warm water. Warm the shortening and sugar and stir in the water and ginger; then the soda and add the flour last. Roll out very thin and bake in a quick oven. FRUIT SNAPS. 1 cup butter. 1 cup each raisins and cur- 1 teaspoon soda. rants. Ih cups sugar. 1 teaspoon each of ginger, i cup molasses. cloves, cinnamon and all- 3 eggs. spice. Flour to roll out as soft as can be cut. These will keep several months. LEMON SNAPS. f cup butter. Flour to roll soft. 1 cup sugar. h teaspoon soda. 4 tablespoons hot water. 2 teaspoons lemon juice. 2 eggs. Bake in a quick oven. LADY FINGEKS. . Take the yolks of 5 eggs, beaten light, 1 cup white sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, flour to roll thin; flavor to taste. Cut in strips the size of a finger. Do not let them touch in the pan. Bake in a quick oven, watching them, as they readily scorch. Lady Fingers, No. 2. — Another recipe is to take the yolks of 3 eggs, beat light, add \ cup powdered sugar and beat again; add 2 heaping tablespoons of flour, mix well, and add the well-beaten whites of the 3 eggs. Squeeze them out of a paper cone, or bag (as shown in our illustration), dust on sugar, and bake till light brown in a moderate oven.