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CURRANT BUN

1 cupful seeded raisins 14 teaspoonful allspice

1 cupful currants 14 teaspoonful baking soda

9 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar 14 teaspoonful cream of tartar

3 tablespoonfuls candied orange 1 cupful sifted cake or pastry
rind, finely cut flour

5 tablespoonfuls chopped blanched 14 cupful bottled milk or 2 table-
almonds spoonfuls evaporated milk and

14 teaspoonful ginger 2 tablespoonfuls water

34 teaspoonful cinnamon Plain pastry

Speck black pepper

Combine all the ingredients but the pastry and mix well.
Line a shallow baking dish with plain pastry, using 1% cupfuls
sifted cake or pastry flour, ’% teaspoonful salt, % cupful shorten-
ing, and cold water as the basis. Arrange the filling in the
pastry-lined dish. Moisten the edges of the pastry with water,
then cover with top crust in the usual way. Prick all over with
a fork and bake in a very hot oven of 450° F. for 10 minutes.
Then reduce heat to a moderate oven at 350° F. and bake 1 hour
longer. Cool and place in a covered container to “age” and mel-
low for full flavor. Serve in slices.

—Miss Helen S. Agnew (Dundee, Scotland)

CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

1 tablespoonful cream cheese 1 tablespoonful flour

Mix together to a paste, adding more cheese if necessary; roll
out to wafer thinness. Cut into small rounds or fancy stars.
Pinch with a fork and bake until a light tan.

—Mrs. G. F. Laing

DATE MUFFINS

2 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
114 tablespoonfuls butter 1 cupful chopped dates

114 cupfuls flour 14 teaspoonful salt and 34 tea-
Yz cupful sugar spoonful nutmeg (optional)

34 cupful milk

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, milk, flour sifted
with baking powder, spice, salt and dates, lastly adding whites
stifly beaten. Bake ™% hour. —Mrs. G. F. Laing

SHORTBREAD COOKIES

One-half cupful berry sugar, % lb. butter; cream well. Knead
into above 2 cupfuls pastry flour, 1 tablespoonful rice flour or
ground rice. Roll out into % inch thickness and cut in fingers
or with cookie cutter. Prick each one once or twice with fork.
Bake at 300° F. for 45 minutes.

—Mrs. D. K. Macken( Powell River)
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