The Toronto Cook Book

Two small cups brown sugar, one cup butter and lard, one small teaspoon soda, half cup sour cream, two cups oatmeal, two cups flour, vanilla flavoring, one pound dates cut small, half cup sugar, brown or white, juice of one lemon. Cook dates, sugar and lemon juice with enough water to cook until dates are soft. Cream sugar and butter, mix soda and sour cream, and add. Into this mix well the oatmeal, flour and flavoring. If the mixture is too thin to roll, add more white flour. Roll out the oatmeal mixture quite thinly and cut with a cutter. Put a spoonful of the date mixture between two of the cookies and press the edges together. Bake until brown. Date Cookies One pound of dates, two teaspoons sugar and water; cook dates a few minutes. Paste for Above Two-thirds cup butter, two-thirds cup sugar, two eggs, pinch of salt, vanilla flavoring; beat eggs, sugar and butter, add two to three cups of flour, one teaspoon baking powder. — Mrs. J. R. Skinner. Cream Cookies Cream one cup brown sugar and one cup butter, add two eggs, two tablespoons sweet cream, two teaspoons baking powder, flavoring, and enough flour to roll. This recipe can also be made with two tablespoons of sour cream, substituting half a teaspoon of soda and half teaspoon cream of tartar for the baking powder. Lemon Cookies One egg, half cup of lard or butter, one and a quarter cups of white sugar, one cup sweet milk, a pinch of salt, a little baking ammonia and a little oil of lemon, flour to stiffen; bake in hot oven. Sponge Cookies Three eggs, one cup sugar, one heaping coffee-cupful of flour, two teaspoons baking powder, Beat the eggs to a stiff froth; add the sugar; sift the baking powder into the flour and beat it thoroughly. Drop teaspoons of the mixture on a buttered tin about three inches apart and bake in a quick oven. Oatmeal Cookies One-half pound flour, half pound oatmeal, six ounces sugar, quarter pound shortening, one egg, one and a half teaspoons baking powder; mix with milk or water to make a soft dough. Vanilla Cookies One cup sugar, one cup butter or part lard, one egg, scant half cup milk, two teaspoons baking powder, salt and flavor; flour enough to roll; after rolling our sprinkle with white sugar and roll lightly. Cut and bake carefully. The Toronto Cook Book Sugar Cookies One and a half cups sugar, two eggs, two-thirds cup butter, one-third cup milk, two teaspoons baking powder, two teaspoons lemon; roll thin and bake in quick oven. Cookies One cup sugar, one egg, half cup butter, four tablespoons sweet milk, one and a half teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla, enough flour to roll well; roll thin. Ginger Cookies Two eggs, one cup brown sugar, three tablespoons melted butter, one teaspoon cream tartar, two teaspoons baking soda, one teaspoon salt, quarter of a teaspoon of pepper, two tablespoons molasses, flour enough to make thick. Set away one and one-half hours to rise, then make into cookies, and bake. These are really delicious.— Mrs. John Moorish. Brown Sugar Cookies One cup sweet milk, two cups brown sugar, one cup butter and lard mixed, one cup of chopped peanuts, one teaspoon of soda, flavor with almond or vanilla, flour enough to make very stiff, two-thirds teaspoon salt. Soft Ginger Cookies