7.—NEW YEAR’S COOKIES.
Rub three quarters of a pound of butter into a pound of flour. Take a half pint of boiling water and pour over a pound and a half of light brown sugar in a bowl; dissolve a small teaspoonful of soda in two large spoons of hot water. Add flour only sufficient to roll out very thin; cut it out in oblong shapes with a jagging iron; bake quickly in a hot oven. In New York they mark these cakes with mottos,—Christmas and New Year’s.