Part 11 (1/2)

CHRISTMAS b.u.t.tER COOKIES

1 cup soft b.u.t.ter cup brown sugar, packed 2 cups flour, sifted

Cream b.u.t.ter until it resembles whipped cream and slowly add the sugar, beating well. Add flour gradually and blend thoroughly. Wrap in waxed paper and chill for several hours. Knead dough slightly on floured board, form into a smooth ball. Roll to about ? inch thick and cut to desired shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake in moderate oven (350-f) about 12 minutes. When cold decorate with b.u.t.ter icing, candied fruit, etc.

ALMOND MACAROONS

1 cup almond paste cup sugar 3 egg whites salt

Rub paste until smooth, gradually work in the sugar until well mixed.

Add a pinch of salt and beat in one egg white at a time, mixing thoroughly. Let stand for 20 minutes. Drop teaspoonfuls on lightly b.u.t.tered baking sheet. Bake in slow oven (300-f) for 25 or 30 minutes until surface is dry. Keep in cool place overnight.

SUGAR CAKES

3 cups sugar cup b.u.t.ter 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup thick milk

Mix eggs and b.u.t.ter well. Then add milk and soda. Mix in enough flour to make a soft dough, just so you can roll it. Cut into any shapes you wish. Sprinkle with granulated sugar, bake in a moderately heated oven.

HICKORY NUT KISSES

2 cups sugar 2 cups hickory nuts, chopped fine 6 egg whites 3 tablespoons flour

Beat egg whites lightly, add sugar, then nut kernels, lastly the flour.

Drop on greased tins and bake in moderate oven. 350 degrees.

”BELSNICKEL” CHRISTMAS CAKES

1 cup sugar cup melted b.u.t.ter 2 eggs 1 cups flour tsp. baking soda pinch of salt

Pour melted b.u.t.ter over sugar in a bowl and beat until smooth and creamy. Add the eggs, beating one at a time, into the mixture. Sift the baking soda thru the flour add the salt and add to the cake mixture.

Stand the dough in a cold place for an hour. Roll out on floured board, quite thin. Cut into small rounds or other shapes. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in hot oven (400-f) for 10 minutes.

GINGER COOKIES-GINGERBREAD MEN

? cup shortening cup brown sugar 2 tsp. ginger 1 tsp. cinnamon tsp. cloves or allspice 1 tsp. salt 1 egg cup mola.s.ses 3 cups flour, sifted 1 tsp. soda tsp. baking powder

Cream together shortening, brown sugar, spices and salt. Add the egg, mix thoroughly. Add mola.s.ses and blend. Sift together twice the flour, soda, baking powder and add to the mola.s.ses mixture. Stir well and chill. Roll out a fourth of the dough at a time, on floured board to a little more than ? inch thick. Cut with gingerbread man cutters or other shapes. Bake on greased cookie sheets in moderately hot (375-f) oven, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool before decorating.

PFEFFERNUSSE

3 eggs lb. powdered sugar 2 cups flour tsp. cinnamon tsp. cloves tsp. nutmeg tsp. soda tsp. salt 1 lemon, juice and rind