Cookies and Small Cakes
Plain Cookies
Cream together thoroughly the butter or shortening and the sugar. Add the slightly beaten egg. Mix and sift the dry mixture. ingredients…
Lemon Wafers
Cream the butter or shortening, add the sugar and well-beaten soft eggs, and lemon-juice. Stir in flour enough to make as soft a a dough as…
Caraway Cookies
Cream the butter or shortening with the sugar; add beaten egg. Mix and sift the flour, baking-powder, and salt, and add alternately with…
Filled Cookies
Mix ingredients in order given, sifting the flour with the bakingpowder and salt before adding it. Roll thin, cut, and put in greased pans…
Brown-Sugar Cookies
Mix ingredients in order given. Add just enough flour to roll. Cut into shapes as desired. Sprinkle with brown sugar, and bake in a…
Chocolate Drop Cookies
Melt the chocolate and add to the melted shortening. Add sugar, egg, milk, and soda and flour sifted together. Batter should be stiff…
Brownies
Melt chocolate and add it to the melted fat. Add sugar, egg, salt and flour. Mix in chopped nuts, pour in greased baking-pans, and bake at…
Ginger Snaps
Heat the molasses and shortening. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add to first mixture. Thoroughly chill, toss on lightly floured…
Peanut Cookies
I to 2 cups chopped peanuts Melt fat, add brown sugar, eggs and milk. Add sifted salt, flour and baking-powder, and chopped peanuts. Drop…
Raisin Rocks
Cook the butter or shortening, sugar, molasses, ginger and salt together. Stir the mixture until it boils and boil it five minutes. Pour…
Hermits
1 teaspoon each of all kinds of Cream fat, add sugar gradually. Add eggs, molasses and raisins. Sift soda and spices with one cup of flour…
Oatmeal Cookies
Mix ingredients in the order given. Melt the fat before adding it, and sift the soda and spices with the flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls on…
Bohemian Christmas Cookies
3 tablespoons finely chopped blanched almonds Put the hard-cooked yolks of eggs through a ricer or sieve and cream with the butter or…
Christmas Peppernuts
Mix the sugar with the well-beaten eggs, add the soda dissolved in hot water, the nuts, and the spices sifted with the flour. Add more…
Sweet-Milk Doughnuts
Beat the eggs till very light, add the sugar and when foamy add the melted butter or fat. Sift the baking-powder, salt and nutmeg with one…
Sour-Milk Doughnuts
Mix the sugar with the cream and add the beaten eggs and sour milk. Sift the soda, salt and spices with one cup of flour and add to the…
Crullers
Cream the butter or shortening. Add sugar; then the well-beaten eggs . Sift the baking-powder, nutmeg, and salt with one cup of flour and…
Gingerbread
Mix ingredients in order given, sifting the soda with the flour before adding it. Bake in a slow oven in a greased shallow pan or in…
Soft Molasses Gingerbread
Melt the fat, add the molasses, vinegar, and beaten egg. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Pour into a…
Nut Cakes
Beat the eggs slightly and add the molasses and sugar. Mix and sift the flour, baking-powder and salt, and stir them into the first…
Little Chocolate Cakes
Cream butter, add the sugar slowly, then the beaten egg-yolks. Melt the chocolate and add. Add flour and baking-powder sifted together…
Mocha Cakes
Cream the sifted powdered sugar with the beaten egg-yolks; add the coffee and the milk, then the dry ingredients sifted together. Bake in a…
Petits Fours
To the beaten yolks of the eggs, add sugar and cold water. Sift the corn-starch with the flour, baking-powder and salt. Add to first…
Cream Puffs
Add the boiling water to the butter or shortening, bring to a boil and stir in the flour thoroughly. Remove from the fire, let the mixture…
Lady Fingers
Add the powdered sugar to the stiffly beaten egg-whites. Add to these the two well-beaten yolks and the vanilla extract. Fold in the flour…
Meringues and Kisses
Beat the egg-whites stiff, adding the salt. Add the sugar gradually, beating constantly, and heap in rounds or press through a pastry bag…
Coconut Drops
Beat the egg-whites stiff, add sugar and beat until light and white, then add the lemon extract, and enough coconut to make it as thick as…
Coconut Macaroons
Beat the egg-white until stiff, then fold it into the mixture of coconut and condensed milk. Add flavoring. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased…
Mock Macaroons
Beat the sugar into the stiffly beaten egg-white, and add the nuts. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased pan and bake in a slow oven (320° F.)…
Kornettes
Beat the white of the egg very stiff and, still beating, mix in the sugar, Melt the butter and into this stir the chopped popcorn, salt and…
Oatmeal Jim-Jams
Cream the butter or shortening with the sugar. Sift the flour, salt and soda and add with the oatmeal to the first mixture, alternating…