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Cookies
14 to 3%4 cup of butter 4 eggs
1 cup sugar or 2 eggs and 14 cup milk
3 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder

(CGREAM the butter, add the sugar gradually, then the eggs. Add sifted flour and
baking powder. Roll 14” thick and cut. Bake in a moderate oven about ten

minutes.

Variations:
1. Melted chocolate. 4. Spices.
2. Chopped nuts. 5. Lemon, vanilla or
3. Fruits. almond flavouring
6. Cocoanut.
Jumbles
1 cup flour 14, cup chopped nuts
6 tablespoons fruit sugar 1 egg

4 tablespoons butter

(CREAM the butter, add the sugar and the beaten egg. Sift and add the flour. Form
into balls. Place ona greased baking sheet. Bake in a quick oven until golden brown.

Oatmeal Date Cakes

2 cups rolled oats 14 cup lard
1 cup brown sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder
14 cup butter 14 cup milk
flour to make a stiff dough
For filling:
1 pound dates 14, cup water

W ASH and stone dates, place in a saucepan with sugar and water. Cook to a paste.

Cream butter and lard together, and add sugar; cream well. Add rolled oats,
then flour and baking powder sifted together alternately with milk. Add enough flour
to make a stiff dough. Place on a slightly floured board and roll out to 14-inch thickness.
Spread half the dough with the date mixture. Fold over other half of rolled dough and
cut into squares or fancy shapes with a cookie cutter. Bake in a moderate oven.

One cup seeded raisins, cooked to a paste consistency with 14 cup water and three
tablespoons sugar, will make an excellent filling to use instead of dates.

Macaroons

BFt up the white of an egg to a stiff froth. Mix into it ground almonds and sifted

sugar—an alternate teaspoon of each—till you get a paste which is firm enough to
handle. Spread a sheet of rice paper on a baking sheet, drop this paste on it, a spoonful
at a time, and flatten out each little pile into a neat round, finishing it off by half of a-
blanched almond in the centre. Cook in a very moderate oven till lightly browned.
When cold, cut the rice paper neatly round the biscuits.

Some people like macaroons made all with sweet almonds; others prefer them when
to each 6 teaspoons of sweet, 1 teaspoon of bitter almonds is used.