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Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup each white sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter and
butter, 2c. flour, 2 tsp. soda in 2 tbsps. boiling water, 2 eggs.
Drop on buttered pan and bake. —Mrs. F. Watt.

Ginger Cookies
1 cup each white sugar, shortening, molasses, % c. boil-
ing water, 2 tsps. each soda and ginger, 1 tsp. salt, 4 c. flour.
Mix well and let stand over night. Pinch off pieces and
flatten. —Mrs. F. Watt.

Oatmeal Cookies
lc. w. sugar, 1c. lard, 2 c. oatmeal, 2 c. flour, 1 tsp. each
baking powder, soda, vanilla. Pinch salt. Work all to
crumbs, then add a little buttermilk. Roll out a small amount
at atime. Roll thin. —Mrs. Grant.

Date Drops
1 c. crisco, 1 c. w. sugar, % c. b, sugar, 3 eggs, 2% c.
flour, 1 c. nutmeats, 1c. cherries, 1 c. dates, 1 tsp. soda, 3
tbsps. warm cherry juice, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. salt. Cream
shortening and sugar well, add eggs, beat. Add cherry juice
and soda. Add other ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet and
bake about 20 mins. —R. Judd.

Hermit Cookies
l cup raisins (chopped), 11%4 cups brown sugar, 1 cup
butter, pinch salt, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon all-spice, 8 tablespoons
sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda in milk. Enough flour to make
stiff batter and drop from teaspoon and bake in oven 375
degrees. —Vi Hantscharuk.

Chocolate Chip Kisses

2 egg whites, % teaspoon salt, % teaspoon of cream of
tartar, 34 cup sugar, 3 plain chocolate bars.- Beat egg whites
until foamy, add cream of tartar and salt, continue beating
until eggs are stiff enough to hold up in peaks. Add sugar, 2
teaspoons full at a time, beating thoroughly after each ad-
dition. Fold in chocolate chips and add vanilla. Drop from
teaspoon on cookie sheet. Bake in slow oven 300 degrees for
25 minutes. Remove from pan while hot. —Vi Hantscharuk.

Bridge Cake
Rub together: 2 cups flour, 1 cup (scant) butter. Put in
pan. Top part: 1% cups brown sugar, 1 cup nuts, 1 cup
cocoanut, 1 cup cherries, 2 tablespoons flour, % teaspoon
baking powder, 2 unbeaten eggs. Mix and spread on first
mixture. : —Vi Hantscharuk.