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Cookies, Cakes, and Doughnuts: Strips

Cinnamon Strips. 2 cupfuls brown sugar, 4 eggs, cupful shredded almonds, Grated peel 1 lemon, 1 tablespoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 4 cupfuls flour.

Cream the sugar and eggs till they are a light froth, add the shredded almonds, lemon peel, and spices, sift in the flour, mix to a stiff batter, roll out on a floured baking board, cut into long strips, and bake until brown.

Chocolate Strips. cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK 1½ squares Runkel's Chocolate, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla, 11 cupfuls flour.

Cream the butter, sugar, and eggs, add the chocolate and vanilla, then the flour, beat thoroughly, pour into a shallow pan in a thin layer. Bake quickly, brush with white of egg, and dust with powdered sugar; while hot, cut into narrow strips.

CAKES MADE FROM SOUR MILK Mrs. Moberly's Sour-Cream Cake. 1 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cupful sour cream, teaspoonful soda, 2 cupfuls flour, 1½ teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful lemon extract.

Beat sugar, egg yolks, and cream very light; sift in flour, soda, and baking powder. Flavor, add whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth in a loaf cake.