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Cookies, Cakes, and Doughnuts: Cream

Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually and eggs well beaten. Add soda dissolved in water, half the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon, then add nut meats, fruit, and remaining flour. Drop by spoonfuls an inch apart on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.-FANNIE M. FARMER.

Christmas Fruit Cookies. cupful lard, cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 2 beaten eggs, + cupful milk, 2 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful soda, cupful currants, cupful raisins, 2 cupfuls uncooked rolled oats.

Cream the butter and lard, add the sugar, eggs, milk, flour, soda, currants, raisins, and rolled oats. Mix thoroughly, drop a teaspoonful at a time in unbuttered pans, and bake in a slow oven.