MINCEMEAT COOKIES

4 cup shortening 12 cups flour
% cup sugar 14 tsp. baking powder
1 egg & tsp. salt

1 cup mincemeat
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add well beaten egg. Then add
mincemeat and mix thoroughly. Sift dry ingredients and add to first mixture.
Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet and bake at 375° for about
12 minutes. Makes 2% to 3 dozen cookies.
These cookies, if kept tightly covered, improve by keeping.
Mrs. Oscar Wiese, Pibroch.

FAVORITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

1% cups butter 1 tsp. vanilla
# cup sugar # cup cocoa
1 egg 12 cups flour

Method: Cream butter and sugar, then add egg and beat well. Add
vanilla, cocoa and flour, mix in good. Roll into balls in the palm of your hand
and put on a greased cookie sheet. Press down with a fork. Bake in a
moderate oven for about 15 minutes.

Mrs. I. Bellringer, Ryley.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1 cup shortening or butter 1 tsp. vanilla
1% cups brown sugar 23 cups sifted flour
2 eggs cup chopped walnuts
% tsp. salt (optional)
1 tsp. soda 1 pkg. (6 oz.) chocolate chips

Cream shortening, add sugar, cream well. Add eggs, beating well. Add
vanilla, then add the sifted dry ingredients and the chocolate chips and
walnuts. Drop by teaspoonsful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 375°

for 10-15 minutes.
Mrs. John Knoch, Nanton.

CHOCOLATE MOUNTAIN PEAKS

4 squares chocolate (melted) 1 cup cocoanut
14 large marshmallows, cut up 1 cup icing sugar
% cup nuts, chopped

Take 2 egg yolks and beat them light, add icing sugar a little at a time.
Whip 2 egg whites stiff, fold into yolks. Pour over marshmallows, nuts and
cocoanut. Add melted chocolate. Drop from teaspoon on waxed paper. Leave
over night. Next morning turn over.

| Elizabeth Stott.

SHORTBREAD
2 cups butter 4 cups all-purpose flour
= cup berry sugar ©. tbsp. rice flour

Mix thoroughly. Bake in oven at 300° for 15 minutes.
Mrs. E. Lister, Edmonton.

SHORTBREAD COOKIES

1 cup butter 2 cups flour
2 cup icing sugar 1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg yolk

Roll into balls and press with a fork. Bake until golden brown.
Mrs. N. Reid, Olds.

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