COOKIES AND DOUGHNUTS

Almond Cookies.

y2 lb. butter 3 t. baking powder

1 lb. brown sugar 4 eggs

y2 cake sweet chocolate, 1 t. cinnamon

grated 1 t. cloves

1 c. almonds, chopped fine 2 c. flour

Bake in two coffee cake tins in slow oven. Frost with white boiled frosting. When cold, cut in pieces about one inch wide and three inches longf.

Almond Cookies — No. 2.

^2 lb. butter 2 eggs

]/2 lb. sugar 1 c. blanched almonds,

1^4 lb. flour or half cornstarch chopped fine

1 large t. baking powder

Mix with a little milk into a soft dough to roll out.

Almond Cookies — No. 3.

1 c. white sugar 2 c. butter

1 c. brown sugar 4 scant c. flour

1 c. blanched almonds 1 dessert spoon soda

3 eggs 1 t. cinnamon

Cream the butter and sugar, then drop the eggs in sep- arately.- Dissolve the soda in one teaspoon warm water and add cinnamon. Then add the chopped almonds and flour and stir until smooth. Let stand over night in a cold place. Cut and bake in hot oven until a delicate brown. These will keep a long time.

Almond Kisses.

4 egg whites, beaten stiff 24 lb- chopped almonds 1 lb. confectioner's sugar 1 t. cinnamon

Beat eggs and sugar, add almonds and cinnamon. Drop on well buttered tins and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

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Almond Squares.

Mix: ]/2 lb. sugar y2 lb. almonds, ground

Take out half of this to sprinkle on top. Add to the remaining:

y2 lb. butter, creamed • 2 eggs

y2 lb. flour, sifted Grated rind of y2 lemon

Roll out and cut in squares, brush over with white of egg, sprinkle with the sugar and almonds, bake in moderate oven.

Almond Croquettes.

2 eggs. y2 lb. flour

y2 t. salt Grated rind of 1 lemon

y2 lb. powdered sugar y2 c. grated chocolate

y2 lb. shelled almonds

Beat the eggs until very light. Add the salt and sugar and beat until very foamy. Grind the almonds very fine and add to the flour. Add the lemon, and chocolate. Add flour and almonds to the first mixture. Mix until smooth. Flour board slightly, taking little dought on the board. Roll very thin. Sprinkle with sugar on top. Cut into strips one and one-half inches wide. Bake in a slow oven until golden brown.

Anise Cookies.

3 eggs, well beaten Pinch of salt

\y2 c. sugar Rind and juice of small lemon

\y2 to 2 c. flour 1 t. anise seed

1 t. baking powder

Beat eggs and sugar. Drop on well buttered tins and bake until light brown.

Butter Cookies

1 lb. butter 3 c. flour

2 c. sugar 1 t. baking powder Yolk of 5 eggs y2 t. salt

Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks and salt, then flour and baking powder. Chill dough, roll thin and cut.

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Banana Fritters.

8 bananas Flour

1 c. flour 1 T. olive oil

2 eggs 1 t. baking powder 2/3 c. cold water

Cut the bananas into three pieces. Make a batter of the flour, the well beaten yolks of the eggs and the cold water and add this gradually to the flour, stirring all the time. Add the olive oil, the well beaten whites of the eggs and the baking powder. Cover the banana with this paste and drop into hot fat. When a bright golden color, take out and sprinkle with powdered sugar. For a sauce, use currant jelly, thinned with water.

Cream Puffs.

1 c. boiling water y2 c. of butter

When boiling stir in 1 cup of flour, heaping. Let it get cold, then stir in three unbeaten eggs. Drop on tins and bake. It will make fifteen.

Cream : One cup of milk, Y\ cup of sugar, 1 egg, 3 table- spoons of flour. Flavor to taste. Cut the puffs open and put cream between.

Cocoanut Cookies.

1 c. butter 1 c. grated cocoanut

2 c. flour 1 c. milk

1 c. sugar 1 t. baking powder

Cocoanut Cookies.

5 eggs 2 t. baking powder

2 c. sugar J/2 lb. cocoanut

3 c. flour

Beat eggs to a cream. Mix well and drop from teaspoon about two inches apart into buttered tins.

Cocoanut Kisses.

2 c. cocoanut 2 level T. flour

1 c. sugar 2 stiffly beaten whites of eggs

Drop on butter pans and bake.

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Cocoa Kisses.

2 egg whites 1*4 c. sugar

2 T. cocoa y t. cinnamon

34 lb. almonds, chopped and blanched

Beat the whites until stiff and gradually add two-thirds of the sugar. Continue beating until mixture will hold its shape. Fold in the remaining sugar. Drop mixture from tip of spoon in small piles one-half inch apart, on greased tins. Bake in slow oven with decreasing heat, fifty minutes or un- til dry. When done, they do not cling to pan.

Buttermilk Doughnuts.

2 eggs 1 t. grated nutmeg

1J4 c. sugar 1 t. soda

2 T. melted fat 2 t. baking powder

y2 t. salt About 1 qt. flour 1 c. buttermilk

Beat eggs, and sugar and shortening. Mix the rest of the dry ingredients, combine the two mixtures with the milk. Knead slightly, roll into % inch thickness, cut and fry in deep hot oil or fat. Dust with powdered sugar.

Doughnuts.

1 T. butter y2 c. sour milk

1 pinch salt y2 t. soda

y2 c. sugar Flour

Cream butter and sugar, then add egg. Dissolve soda in milk and add flour. Fry in deep lard.

Potato Doughnuts.

2 medium sized potatoes 1 c. sour milk mashed 3 eggs

Butter size of an egg, add to 1 1/3 c. sugar potatoes while warm y2 t. salt

A little grated nutmeg, 4 cups of flour, sifted, with 1 tea- spoonful baking soda and 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Handle very lightly and fry in deep fat.

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