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 No. 5. SOUR CREAM COOKIES

pinch of salt

Dissolve soda in the sour cream and add to the sugar; put in vanilla, salt and enough flour to roll thin without sticking; cut with a cookie cutter and bake 20 or 30 minutes in a hot oven.

No. 6. FRUIT COOKIES

Cream sugar and shortening; add the soda dissolved in the milk; mix the spices with enough flour to make a medium stiff dough; then stir in the raisins and nuts; roll out thick, cut out with cookie cutter and bake in a medium oven.

No. 7. LEMON TEA CAKES

1 teaspoon lemon

Cream butter and sugar; add a pinch of salt and the flour into which has been sifted the cream of tartar; mix this to a dough with the milk, reserving a little to dissolve the soda, adding this last of all; mix well and roll out thin; cut into small round cakes and bake in a hot oven.

No. 8. CARAWAY SEED COOKIES

Cream the sugar with the butter and lard, then add the flour into which has been sifted the cream of tartar; mix to a dough with the water in which has been dissolved a teaspoon of baking soda; roll out and cut into oblong cakes, sprinkle with caraway seeds and bake in a hot oven.

No. 9. CHOCOLATE WAFERS

pinch of salt Cream butter and sugar; add the milk, then flour, salt, chocolate and flavor; spread on buttered pans, sprinkle with a cup of chopped nuts and bake in a medium oven. 10