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Maple Hermits. cupful maple sugar, cupful butter, 2½ cupfuls flour, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful milk, teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful soda, cupful currants.

Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in the sugar and spices.

Dissolve the soda in the milk, and beat this into the sugar and butter.

Add the egg well beaten, finally the flour and currants. Roll ou an inch thick, and cut in squares. Bake in a quick oven twelve minutes.

Sugar Cookies. 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful butter, 3 eggs, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, teaspoonful cloves.

Cream butter and sugar, beat in the whipped eggs and spices, add the flour gradually, working it in until the dough is stiff enough to roll. Sprinkle flour over a pastry board. Make a ball of the dough, and lay it on the board. Rub the rolling-pin with flour and roll out the dough into a sheet quarter of an inch thick. Cut in round cakes, sift granulated sugar over each, and bake quickly.

Ginger Snaps. 2 cupfuls molasses, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter, 5 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful allspice, Stir molasses, sugar, and butter together in a bowl set in hot water till very light. Mix in spices and flour, and roll in a thin sheet. Cut into small cakes, and bake quickly.

Chocolate Dominoes. cupful pecan meat, cupful English-walnut meat, cupful figs, cupful dates, Grated rind 1 orange, 1 tablespoonful orange juice, 1 square Runkel's Chocolate.

Mix the nuts, dates, and figs, and put them through a food chopper.

Wet with the orange juice, mix in the grated rind, and roll in a ball. Lay it on the baking board, which has been covered with sifted confectioner's sugar, and roll half an thick. Cut into shapes the size of a domino, and spread with melted chocolate. On top lay little rounds cut from blanched almonds to imitate dominoes.