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CHINESE CHEWS
By E. M. PATCHELL

34 cup flour 1 cup chopped dates
% tsp. salt 1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp. baking powder 3 well beaten eggs

1 cup sugar

Sift dry ingredients. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into greased t0x14-.
inch pan. Bake in slow oven 300° F for thirty minutes

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
By MRS. J. DRAKE, Los Angeles

1 cup shortening 2 eggs
1% cups sugar (white and 1 tsp. (level) soda
brown mixed) yy tsp. salt
2 or 3 chocolate bars 2% cups flour
2 squares unsweetened choco- 2 tbsp. hot water
late melted (optional) 1 tsp. vanilla

Mix shortening, sugar and eggs, then dry ingredients followed by hot
water and vanilla. If adding the unsweetened chocolate it can be melted
and added to the butter, sugar mixture. The cut up chocolate bars are
best added just before the water and vanilla. Drop from a tsp. onto a
greased cookie sheet and bake in a moderate oven, about 375 degrees
for 15 to 20 minutes.

CHOCOLATE TEA DAINTIES
By MRS. O. B. ELLIOTT

4 squares unsweetened choco- 1 cup icing sugar

late 20 marshmallows cut in 3
2 tsp. butter pieces
2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup nuts (any kind)

Melt the chocolate with butter. Add other ingredients. Mix all together
and spoon onto wax paper. Leave for 24 hours to harden. This is an
easy afternoon tea cookie that requires no baking.

CHOCOLATE GRAHAM WAFERS
By MRS. S. AGNEW

% cup butter 3%4 cup walnuts
14 cup brown sugar 2 tbsp. cocoa
1 egg l% lb. Graham Wafers

1 tsp. vanilla
Melt butter in pan and add sugar, cocoa and eggs, slightly beaten. Stir
well then bring to bubbling and simmer for one minute. Add the vanilla,
nuts and crackers that have been roughly broken. Pour into greased baking
dish and press down with a spoon. Ice with a chocolate icing. When cold
cut into fingers. (This sets in about 2 hours.)

COCOANUT MACAROONS
By MRS. E. M. GUEHO
3 eggs whites Salt
1 cup sugar 2 cups cocoanut

2 tbsp. corn starch : ;
Beat with rotary beater in top of double boiler over hot water until thick,

about 7 minutes, add 2 cups cocoanut. Drop in small spoonfuls on greased
cookie sheet and bake in a siow oven for %%4 hour.