Hold the cup over the mixing bowl while stirring in the soda, as it will foam over the cup.  Last of all stir in enough sifted flour to make a light dough, stiff enough to roll thin.  Roll on a pastry board well dusted with flour.  Cut in round shapes and place in baking-tins well rubbed with flour.

Sprinkle a little sugar over the cookies and bake them in a moderate oven till a light brown.  When cool, carefully lift the cookies from the pans with a pancake turner.

CITRON COOKIES

Take one-half cup of butter and one cup and a half of sugar, and rub to a cream.  Add two eggs, three-quarters of a cup of milk; one-half cup of citron, cut up very fine, one teaspoon of allspice and one of cloves.  Sift one heaping teaspoon of baking-powder into enough flour to thicken.  Make stiffer than ordinary cup cake dough; flavor to suit taste, and drop on large tins with a teaspoon.  Grease the pans, and bake in a quick oven.  The best plan is to try one on a plate.  If the dough runs too much add more flour.

GINGER WAFERS

Take one cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, half a cup of cold coffee, with two teaspoons of soda, one teaspoon of ginger, and flour enough to make a dough stiff enough to roll out thin.  Shape with cutter and bake in quick oven.

ANISE ZWIEBACK

Take the yolks of five eggs, one-half pound of sugar, one tablespoon of water, vanilla, one-half pound of flour, one teaspoon of baking-powder, one-half of five cents worth anise seeds, and the beaten whites of the eggs.  Butter square tins and bake.  When cooled cut in strips one inch wide and toast on both sides.

HURRY UPS (OATMEAL)

Sift one cup of flour with two teaspoons of baking-powder, one teaspoon of salt, add one cup of rolled oats, one tablespoon of sugar and two tablespoons of melted butter, mix with one-half cup of milk.

Drop by teaspoons onto a greased pan, press well into each two or three raisins, or a split date and bake for twenty minutes in a hot oven.  Can be served with butter, honey, or maple sugar.

PECAN, WALNUT, OR HICKORY NUT MACAROONS

Take one cup of pulverized sugar, and one cup of finely-pounded nut meats, the unbeaten whites of two eggs, two heaping teaspoons of flour, and one scant teaspoon of baking-powder.  Mix these ingredients together and drop from a teaspoon which, you have previously dipped in cold water, upon buttered paper.  Do not put them too near each other, for they always spread a great deal.  Bake about fifteen minutes.

DATE MACAROONS

Stone thirty dates; chop them fine.  Cut one-half pound of almonds lengthwise in slices, but do not blanch them.  Beat the whites of two eggs until foamy, add one cup of powdered sugar, and beat until stiff; add the dates, then the almonds, and mix very thoroughly.  Drop mixture with teaspoon in small piles on tins, one-half inch apart.  Bake thirty minutes in a very slow oven or until dry.  They are done when they leave the pan readily.