54 THE BLUE BIRD CooK BOooK

RAISIN-FILLED COOKIES

1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder
Y2 cup butter in flour
1 egg Y cup milk

Roll cookies thin and cut. Place a spoonful of filling in centre and another
cookie on top. Moisten edges with a little water and press together. Bake in
moderate oven (350 degrees) 15 minutes.

FILLING:

1 cup raisins Ya cup water
Y2 cup sugar
Boil together.

RAGGED ROBINS

Whites of 2 eggs, beaten dry 1 cup walnuts, chopped
Y2 cup white sugar 1% cups corn flakes
1 teaspoon vanilla Pinch of salt

Y2 pound dates, chopped

Mix corn flakes, sugar, nuts and dates together, then the beaten whites, vanilla
and salt. Shape into small cakes with the hands or spoon. Bake on cookie sheet in
moderate oven (350 degrees) until dry.

SCOTCH COOKIES

22 cups white sugar 2 teaspoons soda dissolved in
1% cups butter hot water
% Y cup golden syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla
‘ 3 eggs 7 cups flour
¥ Cream sugar and butter, add vanilla and rub in eggs, add soda, syrup and
a flour. Roll very thin and bake in quick oven (400 degrees) 10 minutes. Use
& different sized cutters. The very small sized cookies placed together with date, fig
3 or other fillings when ready for use, make a nice change.
SPONGE DROPS
E 3 egg whites 1/3 cup flour
- 2 egg yolks VY teaspoon salt
Ps, 1/3 cup icing sugar Y% teaspoon yanilla

Beat whites of eggs until stiff, adding sugar gradually, then add yolks beaten
until thick, add flavoring. Cut and fold in flour mixed with the salt. Drop on a
cookie sheet covered with unbuttered paper and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees)
for 8 minutes. Ice with chocolate icing and put together in pairs with whipped
cream between.

SHORTBREAD
1 pound butter Y cup of rice flour
1 cup fruit sugar 32 cups of pastry flour

VY teaspoon of soda

Cream butter and sugar thoroughly, add soda to flour. Work in gradually, roll
: out about Y% inch thick, cut with cookie cutter, bake in a moderate oven (325
degrees) for 20 minutes.

SHORTBREAD

1 pound butter 4% cups flour
1 cup yellow sugar Vanilla if desired
Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Add the flour gradually, working in with
the hands on the baking board until you have a good stiff dough. Roll about % inch
thick and cut in squares. Bake in slow oven (300 degrees) 20 minutes.