PEANUT COOKIES

Sift dry ingredients together. Add melted shortening to beaten egg. Add milk and lemon juice, and mix well with the dry ingredients to make soft dough. Add peanuts; mix well and drop with teaspoon on greased pan. Bake in moderate oven (400°) about 20 minutes. This recipe makes about four dozen small cookies and requires 1 quart of peanuts.

All measurements are level

And while the puzzled lady

Grasped the cook book in surprise,

The Pup and Bill and Hun Bun

Disappeared before her eyes.

Next instant they were on a train

And hieing in a hurry

Across a golden cornbread plain

To little Hun’s Bunbury.

The engine on its lic’rice rails

Cream puffed along so fast

The pep’mint poles and chocolate cows

Went simply whizzing past!

And when they reached the station

All the tasty cakes and tarts

Were out to welcome Billy,

Bless their little sugar hearts.

The Royal Bun Band headed

By a pound cake drummer man,

Came tooting down the central street

And after it there ran

A flock of Scotch and Dutch cakes,

Twenty cookies and a roll,

While all the orange icing bells

Began to peal and toll.

Soon our Billy was no bigger

Than a Cooky Man himself;

For Hun’s magician, Devils Food,

Had changed him to an elf.

“We’re going to the circus first,”

Said Hun Bun in his ear,

“Where you can see the animals

And all the freaks, so queer.”

The little cracker animals

Cavorted ’round the tent,

Till the air was full of cracker dust

And cheers and merriment.

How Billy laughed, while Ginger barked

And Hun Bun clapped with glee;

“Come on now,” cried the mighty king

“There’s other folk to see.

“Here’s Captain Jelly Roll who drills

Our biscuit P’licemen brave,

But we don’t really need them

For good cakes like us behave.”

The more of Bunbury’s sights he saw,

The hungrier he grew,

And yet, to eat up Hun Bun’s friends

Would never, never do.