Brownies

1/2 cup butter.

2 squares Baker's.

Chocolate.

1 cup sugar.

2 eggs.

1/2 cup Gold Medal flour 1 cup molasses 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Melt chocolate and butter together and add sugar and molasses. Then add well beaten eggs, flour and vanilla. Mix nuts with dash of flour before adding. Bake in square shallow pan for thirty minutes in slow oven. Cut into squares or sticks.

Mrs. Don Pattison.

Chocolate Cookies

1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 egg (beaten) 3 teaspoons grated chocolate.

1/2 cup sweet milk 1/2 teaspoon soda 1 cup Gold Medal flour 1/2 cup chopped walnut meats.

Melt chocolate and add to butter. Combine with sugar. Then add well beaten agg. Sift flour and add to mixture alternately with milk in which soda has been dissolved. Add chopped nuts. Frost with chocolate.

Margaret L. Dunham.

Spice Cookies (Ice Box)

1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 1 cup Crisco 3 eggs.

1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon cloves.

4 cups Gold Medal flour 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/2 cup nuts 1/2 cup raisins.

Cream Crisco, add sugar gradually and eggs slightly beaten. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture with nuts and raisins, and mold in rolls two inches in diameter and place in cool place over night. Slice very thin and bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. Irl G. Whitchurch.

Macaroons

12 dates cut fine 1/2 cup almonds cut up with skins.

2 egg whites - stiff 1 cup granulated sugar.

Add sugar gradually to beaten whites of eggs, then add dates and almonds. Drop from teaspoon on buttered and floured tin. Bake in slow oven. Allow to stand on tin few minutes after removing them from oven so as to remove more easily. Makes 24.

Alice Belt Soper.

Cocoanut Sweet Meats

1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 1/4 cups shredded cocoanut 2 tablespoons flour.

1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg white.

Mix the dry ingredients, then add vanilla. Beat the egg white stiff. Add other ingredients and mix thoroughly. Mrs. W. L. Whipple.

Chocolate Macaroons

1 pound pulvarized sugar Whites of 4 eggs.

1/2 cake of Baker's Chocolate, grated.

Whip eggs stiff, add sugar, then chocolate. Drop tiny bits from end of spoon, far apart, on greased pans, and bake in moderate oven.

Mrs. Oscar T. Towner.

Ice Box Cookies

1 cup shortening half butter and half lard.

1 cup granulated sugar.

1 cup brown sugar.

2 eggs.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon 1/2 teaspoonful lemon extract.

1/2 teaspoonful vanilla 1/2 teaspoonful almond extract 1 teaspoonful baking soda 4 cups flour 1 cup chopped blanched almonds or pecans.

Form into loaves. Put on plate in ice box over night. In morning turn out on bread board and slice very thin with sharp knife. Bake in moderate oven until brown.

Mrs. F. L. Harwood.