VANILLA COOKIES

Rub one cup of butter and one cup of sugar to a cream; add two eggs and two level teaspoons of baking-powder, flour enough to make a dough.  Flavor with vanilla, roll very thin, spread with beaten white of egg and sugar.  Proceed as for sugar cookies.

OLD-FASHIONED MOLASSES COOKIES

Put in a mixing bowl one generous cup of butter which has stood in a warm place until quite soft; add two cups of New Orleans molasses; whip these ingredients to a foam; then add two teaspoons of powdered ginger, one teaspoon of powdered cinnamon and grate in half a large nutmeg; stir these spices well through the mixture; then dissolve two teaspoons of baking-soda in half a cup of hot water; stir it through the mixture, and last, stir in enough sifted flour to make a light dough just stiff enough to roll out.

Dust the pastry board well with flour and rub the rolling-pin well with flour; then flour the hands well, take out some of the dough, put it on the pastry board, quickly roll it out to the thickness of a quarter of an inch; cut the dough out with a round cutter, with or without scallops, and put them in well-floured baking-pans and bake in a slow oven till a golden brown.

SOUR MILK COOKIES

Take one cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two or three eggs, and two-thirds of a cup of sour milk.  Dissolve a teaspoon of soda in a little hot water; add part of it at a time to the milk until it foams as you stir it.  Be careful not to get in too much.  Mix up soft only using flour sufficient to roll out thin.  A teaspoon of cardamom seed may be sprinkled into the dough.

HUNGARIAN ALMOND COOKIES

Scant one-quarter of a pound of almonds, blanched and grated; scant one-half pound of sweet butter; not quite three-quarters of a pound of flour; a little sugar and a pinch of salt, and two yolks.  Mix this well, pound the dough well with the rolling-pin, then roll out not too thin.  Bake.

NUTMEG CAKES (PFEFFERNUESSE)

Sift one pound of flour and one pound of pulverized sugar into a large bowl, four eggs, a piece of citron grated or chopped very fine, also the peel of a lemon, one whole nutmeg grated, one tablespoon of ground cinnamon, one-half teaspoon of ground cloves, and half a teaspoon of allspice.  Mix all thoroughly in a deep bowl.  Sift a heaping teaspoon of baking-powder in with the flour.  Work into little balls as large as hickory nuts with buttered or floured hands.  Bake on waxed or buttered tins, an inch apart.

ANISE SEED COOKIES (SPRINGELE)

Four eggs, not separated, but thoroughly beaten, then add one and one-half cups of granulated sugar, and beat for thirty minutes; add two heaping cups of flour and fourteen drops of anise seed oil; drop from a teaspoon on well-buttered pans, and bake in a moderate oven.  It will improve them to let them stand from two to three hours in the pans before baking.