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“Oh weary mothers, making dough, Don’t you wish that food would grow? Your lips would smile, I know, to see A cookie bush or doughnut tree.”’

GINGER COOKIES

1 cup brown sugar 1 cup molasses % cup butter or meat drippings 1 tablespoon ginger 1 tablespoon vinegar 2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon soda.

3 eggs

Put sugar, molasses, butter, ginger and vinegar into a kettle and boil 2 minutes. When cool, add 1 teaspoon soda and eggs, well beaten. Sift flour and baking powder and mix with above. Add more flour as needed to make a stiff dough. Roll out and bake in a quick oven.

Mrs. C. E. Hukill, Blackfalds. GINGER NUTS

1 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon ginger 1 cup molasses 1 cup melted butter or shortening % teaspoon soda Flour to mix stiff.

Put pieces size of a walnut on baking pan and bake in moderate oven. Mrs. Dutton, Lawn Hill Local, Sedgewick.

GINGER SNAPS

1 cup sugar 1 cup shortening

1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon ginger (heaping) 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt

% cup boiling water Flour to stiffen.

Pinch off pieces the size of a marble and place one inch apart on greased tins. Do not make dough too stiff or cookies will not spread and crack as they should.

Mrs. E. H. Jeglum, Westling Local, Clive.

GINGER SNAPS

1% cup butter 2 cups flour

1 dessertspoon ginger 1% cup sugar

1 tablespoon golden syrup 1% teaspoon cream of tartar % teaspoon soda 1% teaspoon cinnamon.

Hot water to mix Mix ingredients together. Roll, cut into rounds and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. Holmes, Turin Local.