This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
1 cup sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. soda, 6 tbsp. sour milk, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 cup chopped raisins, 1/2 cup chopped nut meats, 2 cups flour, 2 cups oatmeal, not cooked.
Mix in the order given, dissolving soda in milk. Drop by teaspoons into greased pan; bake in moderate oven.
- Mrs. H. W. Corke.
1 cup lard, 1 cup sugar, 8 tbsp. milk, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 cups flour, 2 cups dry rolled oats, 1 cup chopped raisins.
Cream lard with sugar, add beaten eggs; sift salt, soda and spices with flour; mix other ingredients in order given. Drop from a spoon on well-greased tins.
- Mrs. A. W. Johnson.
1 cup lard, 3 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup cocoanut, 4 cups oatmeal, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. salt.
Cream lard and sugar, add egg yolks; sift flour with 2 tsp. baking powder and add to the first mixture, then add the oatmeal and cocoanut. Fold in the stiffly-beaten whites after the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed. Drop from spoon and bake in moderate oven. If you cannot eat them send them to me.
- Mrs. Chas. Langill.
1 1/2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup lard and butter, 2 eggs beaten light, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. vanilla, pinch of salt, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in hot water, 5 tbsp. sour milk, sour cream or hot water.
Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs and the other ingredients in order given. Drop by spoonfuls on greased pan. Bake in moderate oven. - Mrs. C. U. Olson.
3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup lard, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, 1 cup raisins and currants, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 6 tbsp. sweet milk, 1 tsp. soda and a little baking powder. Drop in well-greased pan and bake.
- Mrs. W. C. Fort.
 
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