Ugew. A: COOK BOOK 29

DATE COOKIES

2 cups flour } 1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup white sugar 1 cup butter
1 teaspoon cream of tartar 2 eggs.

Sift flour, sugar, cream of tartar and soda together, then rub in butter.
Add the eggs well beaten and mix together. Roll thin and bake.

Put % lb. of dates on to cook just covered with water and sweetened
to taste. Spread between cookies.

Mrs. F. W. Adair, Sunniebend Local, Pibroch.
CURRANT COOKIES

1% cups brown sugar 1 cup butter
2 eggs 1 cup currants or raisins
1 small teaspoon soda 2 spoons sour milk
Spices to taste Flour.

Mrs. Anna Lavold, Renfrew Local.

JELLY COOKIES

2 eggs 1 cup brown sugar

1 cup butter 6 tablespoong corn syrup

2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon extract of lemons
Flour.

Roll thin and bake. Then put together with jelly. This will make about
70 cookies.
Mrs. A. N. McLeay, Gleichen Local.

JUBILEE SHORT BISCUITS

4 ozs. fine flour 4 ozs. rice flour
2% ozs. castor sugar 38 ozs. butter.

1 tablespoon ground almonds

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add flour and rice flour sifted, and a
level spoonful of almonds; the mixture should be smooth and stiff; roll out
(about quarter of an inch in thickness) and cut in fancy shapes; put a bit
of citron or orange peel on top, bake in a slow oven, do not touch till cold,
then dredge with pink, white and green sugar and serve on dainty papers.

Mrs. A. Gillies, Fairdonian Valley Local, Sedgewick.
BOSTON COOKIES

2 eggs 1 cup butter

1 cup sugar 2 cups dates

1% eup chopped walnuts 1% teaspoon soda dissolved in
Vanilla % cup milk.

Flour to stiffen
Drop by teaspoon on a pan and cook quickly.

Mrs. A. Gragg, Bow Island Local.
BRAN COOKIES

% cup butter 2 cups bran
1 cup granulated sugar 1% cups flour
2 tablespoons cream or milk Pinch salt
2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla.

1 teaspoon baking powder

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs well beaten, the cream, bran, flour,
baking powder, salt and vanilla. Mix % bran, % flour to use in rolling out.
Roll only a small piece at a time about %-inch thick. Cut in any desired
shape. Bake in rather a hot oven.

Mrs. F. E. Violet, Hazel Bluff Local.